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Knobber

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hart in its second year; a young male deer.

    "Near-synonyms: brocket, pricket, spitter"

  2. 2
    A stupid, obnoxious, or otherwise contemptible person. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang

    "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.'"

Etymology

From knob + -er; the deer sense derives from the fact that a young buck's antlers begin diminutively as mere knobs; the fool sense derives indirectly from a reference to the penis; the two senses are ultimately cognate.

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