bedknob
English
Etymology
bed + knob
Noun
bedknob (plural bedknobs)
- An ornamental knob at the top of a bedpost.
- 2015, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia
- She had a plastic bag hanging from a bedknob; she'd hawk up and spit the phlegm into it between decades of the rosary.
- 2011, Hobb Whittons, Blue Fire Burning (page 168)
- He burrowed his head contentedly into his pillow. His happiness, however, did not last long. 'Meat...Where's me meat?' he said, grasping a bedknob in anguish.
- 2015, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia