knobend
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[edit]Noun
[edit]knobend (plural knobends)
- (UK, Ireland) Alternative form of knob-end
- 2003, Donal Ruane, Tales in a Rearview Mirror, page 170:
- No, I'm fuckin ' delited dat meself an ' Derek leave youse two alone fer two bleedin' minits te go te de jax, an' wen we come back, yer givin' it lodes te some knobend ! ”
- 2011, Adrian Searle, The Hope That Kills Us:
- We'd bother beforehand when some knobend took exception to Fred's accent. Within seconds, a team of boys from Kelty was on the scene, and the knobend was removed.
- 2019, Jen Wight, Rattled: Overcoming Postpartum Psychosis:
- That isn't to say there aren't “knobends” in the voluntary sector – there are plenty of them. But the ethos of the sector is about positive social change for the better, and breaking taboos of all kinds is part of this.