Nob

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: nŏb, IPA: /nÉ’b/
• US enPR: nŏb, IPA: /nÉ‘b/
• Rhymes: -É’b
• Homophones: knob

• From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful)
• From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.

Full definition of nob

Noun

1. (slang, chiefly British) a wealthy or influential person; a toffThe masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
2. Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth

Noun

1. (now only in slang) The head.Jack and Jill went up the hill
   to fetch a pail of water;
   Jack fell down and broke his crown
   and Jill came tumbling after.
   Up Jack got and home did trot,
   as fast as he could caper,
   to old Dame Dob
   to mend his nob
   with vinegar and brown paper.
2. (cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.One for his nob.
3. (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. Also spelled knob.

Anagrams

• BON, Bön