knob jockey
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In fact maybe now's as good a time as any to tell you: if you're gay, you go to Hell. Doesn't matter what else you spend your time doing – painting the Sistine Chapel, for instance – knob-jockey? Down you go. (Lezzers are borderline; room for manoeuvres if they've done social work.)"
- "A Knob Jockey, was John's take. He was slender and moved in a series of jerks. He wore black skinny jeans, a Ramones Tshirt and Converse runners."
- "You could call Julien a poof, a fag, a shirt-lifter or a knob jockey, and he didn't mind but, for some reason he hated to be likened to a herbaceous plant of the genus Viola. 'You pansy,' said Dusty."
- "Maybe he was in fact a knob jockey. He snatched a handful of Katie's lingerie in his palm and inhaled deeply. Well then. No. He wasn't gay."
- "Poofter. Bum bandit. Knob jockey. Fag. The comments on YouTube left him in no doubt of what they thought — and, though he had no problem with gays (had several close friends that way inclined), he resented being labelled one merely because he'd cried."
- "I can't fucking stand those sorts of men, but the biggest dope in all of this is me for letting myself fall in love with such a waste of space, knob-jockey, lady-boy, the piercing pressed deeper into her brain, but she no longer felt like improvising and imagining what would be if it would only be, […]"
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Derogatory
- Humorous
- Slang