bedknob
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bedknob (plural bedknobs)
- An ornamental knob at the top of a bedpost.
- 2015, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia:
- She had a plastic bag hanging from a bedknob; she'd hawk up and spit the phlegm into it between decades of the rosary.
- 2011, Hobb Whittons, Blue Fire Burning, page 168:
- He burrowed his head contentedly into his pillow. His happiness, however, did not last long. 'Meat...Where's me meat?' he said, grasping a bedknob in anguish.