knob

Meaning

Noun

1. A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
2. A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
3. A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
4. A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
5. A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
6. A prominent rounded hill.
7. (slang) A woman's breast.
8. (slang) The penis; dick.
9. (slang) The penis; dick.
10. (slang) The clitoris.
11. A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
12. A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
13. A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
14. (slang) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.

Verb

1. protrude
2. furnish or produce with a knob, knobble
3. (slang) To have sex with.

Concepts

knob

handle

button

bump

protuberance

lump

knot

node

pommel

grip

boss

gnarl

swelling

tuber

haft

hilt

thickening

excrescence

nub

switch

bulge

hump

doorknob

nipple

pimple

beetle

gavel

hammer

mall

mallet

maul

nob

wart

head

stud

nodule

prominence

tumour

knurl

protrusion

ball

lever

bud

spot

catch

patron

bob

pendant

blotch

jutting

cane-head

hold

pustule

hit

bunch

knoll

nubble

round top

hunch

tuberosity

bowline

hitch

junction

kink

clutch

heft

lug

pummel

edema

swell

tumefaction

whelp

extrusion

hob

jag

jute

projection

prominency

ramus

salience

saliency

salient

door handle

BP button

depressed key

key

press-button

pusher-button

snap button

rotary knob

ball knob

door knob

struma

tumor

knop

knosp

acme

apex

crest

crown

culmination

jogging

roof

summit

tip

tip side

top

vertex

attic

verruca

bend

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nɒb/

Etymology

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob; knot in wood”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knuttô (“knot”).
Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop.