Apart from the obvious "gay" and "well" instead of "very" (my son is well ill),I have heard "knob" used in a derogatory way. Now my parents would often refer to a person as a "nob" meaning a posh person (member of the nobility though not really ) but this meaning seems to have died out. The spelling is of course different but this is a colloquial word which is usually spoken and therefore sounds the same. Any others?
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