different between knobber vs knobbed

English

Etymology

knob +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?b?(?)

Noun

knobber (plural knobbers)

1. (hunting, animal husbandry) The hart in its second year; a young deer.

   Synonym: knobbler
2. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A knobhead; a stupid or obnoxious person.
   • 2015, Ben Davis, The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek (page 29)

     Harry chuckled. 'What is it, old son? Are you worried Natalie will go for a rummage in your undercarriage and come away empty-handed?'
     Ad spat Tango across the table, missing me by inches.
     'No, you knobber,' I said. “I'm meeting her parents for the first time tomorrow.'

English

Verb

knobbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of knob

Adjective

knobbed (not comparable)

1. Having a knob or knobs.

   a knobbed chromosome

   • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, London: J. Nourse, Volume 4, Chapter 11, The Camelopard, pp. 299-300,^[1]

     No animal, either from its disposition, or its formation, seems less fitted for a state of natural hostility; its horns are blunt, and even knobbed at the ends; its teeth are made entirely for vegetable pasture […]

   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, Chapter 8,^[2]

     The chairs […] were railed with white bars across the back and knobbed with gold; neither the railings nor the knobs invited to ease.

   • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway,^[3]

     For it's been a hard life, thought Mrs. Dempster. What hadn’t she given to it? Roses; figure; her feet too. (She drew the knobbed lumps beneath her skirt.)

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