Source: WordNet® 3.1
knobbing
present participle of knob
knobbing (plural knobbings)
A pattern of knobs or lumps.
(UK, vulgar, slang) A session of penetrative sexual intercourse.
Source: Wiktionary
Knob"bing, n. (Stone Quarrying)
Definition: Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
Knob, n. Etym: [A modification of knop. Cf. Nob.]
1. A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. Chaucer.
3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.] Bartlett.
4. (Arch.)
Definition: See Knop. Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key.
Knob, v. i.
Definition: To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.] Drant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 June 2024
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
