It's "knob", not "nob", you absolute KNOBS!

[LaMarschallin]

There.
All calm again.
I've seen this a lot, but today it's lockdown, I'm bored and am moved to post after seeing this twice in the last hour.

If trying to insult someone, call them a Knob. With a "k".
I presume this comes from "door knob" and other knobs of similar type/appearance (eg drawer knobs) becoming slang for a penis.
Basically, you want to call someone a dick.
And why not?

"Nob" with no "k", on the other hand, is old-fashioned slang for a posh person.
Now, depending on outlook and/or political affiliation, that may also seem quite the insult.

However, if as in most cases (and I would bet folding money that this is mostly what is meant*), the wish is to call someone a complete cock, "knob" is the word you want.

*You know - within reason. Think I've got a €5 note somewhere. Not much use to me at the moment.

PS I am fully expecting:

1. To be corrected and have the proper use of "nob" as an insult explained to me.

and

B) To have my spelling and my grammatical mistakes painfully picked apart.

@TellingBone

I'm a pedant too but on this occasion I believe the use of 'nob' came about in the early days of the internet when people were trying to get around profanity filters on message boards [rather than through an inability to spell].

While I'm here though, may I please mention the abominable misuse of discrete/discreet hereabouts?

The ‘nob’ spelling precedes the internet. From my school days in the 80s in London then Wiltshire we used ‘nob’

Nob for the upperclasses is just nob and never knob (unless referring to them as a dick)

Nob as slang for the dick or calling someone a dick is both nob and knob. It may be regional

PS
Collins dictionary has both nob & knob as alternative spellings

PPS
I’m being a right nob/knob and constantly failing to post the link

www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nob

@Apileofballyhoo cubird = cupboard 😳

sometimes nob expresses it better. I like it

Ha ha ha you said 1 and then B! Mistake!

tommika

Collins dictionary has both nob & knob as alternative spellings

Ah - interesting.
It does say British English too, so hard to object.

My only (v.v. small) defence is that it's right towards the bottom of the meanings, so possibly indicating it's less used.

You don't set cryptic crosswords, do you?
Finding slightly obscure definitions way down the list in dictionaries is the sort of thing the setters are always doing...

MeringueCloud

Ha ha ha you said 1 and then B! Mistake!

Tsk!

What am I like?

[quote Deux]@Apileofballyhoo cubird = cupboard 😳[/quote]

I would never have interpreted 'cubird' as 'cupboard'!
I'd say kew-baird.
I despair sometimes. I am fed up of seeing "my babies cot" when there is a single baby owner/occupier of said cot. Knobs!

I am concerned about the number of posters that must be feeling very cold.

The ones who don't know the difference between bare and bear.

Lots of them in the last couple of weeks.

[quote Deux]@Apileofballyhoo cubird = cupboard 😳[/quote]

I would never have interpreted 'cubird' as 'cupboard'!

I think my brain must have been primed by discrete/discreet to think about quanta and hence thought it might be an attempt at 'qubit'. (Which my ignorant spellchecker tried to turn into 'quoit').