Knobbing

Quick meaning: Knobbing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of knob.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of knob.

More Meanings

1. A pattern of knobs or lumps.
2. The amount by which a bowl is wider in the middle than at the top and bottom.
3. (UK, vulgar, slang) A session of penetrative sexual intercourse or the act of sexual penetration.
4. (mining) The process of rough dressing stone; the act of cutting off projecting points from quarried stone.
5. The practice of cutting off the sharp tips of the horns of cattle, leaving rounded knobs.

Example Sentences

This bowl has the same knobbing as the bowls of Group I.

These swellings or blunt knobbings form the rachitic rosary.

Also, the degree of knobbing was too great for the size of the shell.

Mark inwardly cringed at the term, especially as their 'knobbing' hadn't been too brilliant, anyway .

Word Forms

• knobbings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gnarled, gnarly, knotty, knotted, crooked, torose.

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