subs. phr. (provincial).—A piece of sweetmeat.
1865. C. KINGSLEY, Hereward, the Last of the English, Prelude, in Good Words, vi. Feb., p. 125/1. These children get an hour for dinner, and, when they are ‘very good,’ and work hard, they sometimes get a ‘KNOB O’ SUCK’ (a piece of sweetstuff) on Saturday.
