knob rot

English

Alternative forms

• knob-rot

Noun

knob rot (uncountable)

1. (British, vulgar slang) A sexually transmitted disease (when contracted by a man).

   galloping knob rot (humorous) ― a rapidly progressing or uncontrollable sexually transmitted disease

   • 1966, Gordon M. Williams, chapter 2, in The Camp, London: Mayflower, page 23:

     The Raff's getting like the boy scouts. The old regulars, they didn't think you were properly in until you'd gone down with galloping knob rot […]

   • 2001 August 13, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, “New Girl” (22:51 from the start), in The Office, season 1, episode 5 (television production), spoken by Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), BBC:

     You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in. "Who's used all the penicillin?" "Oh, Mark Paxton, sir. He's got knob rot off some tart."

   • 2014, Joanna Nadin, The Time of My Life (The Rachel Riley Diaries), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 320:

     Liam O'Grady removed (unconscious) from church for failing to forever hold his peace, and instead brandishing note from sexual health walk-in clinic declaring he is now knob-rot free and begging Thin Kylie to take him back […]