Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Knobby; rough; knobbly.
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Examples
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Our charge case files have some of the best attrition rates in the country, but they are free from being knobbled.
ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I slid in a slow motion second until first my feet, then my stomach, and finally my head bucked over a knobbled rock, smashing in a rhythmic serpentine motion.
365 tomorrows » In This Reality : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Are those who are out to get the Arsenal captain the same people who knobbled Hennes the Billy Goat?
Why the witch-hunt against Cesc Fábregas gets my goat | Harry Pearson 2011
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I slid in a slow motion second until first my feet, then my stomach, and finally my head bucked over a knobbled rock, smashing in a rhythmic serpentine motion.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Pulling onto a minor road near Qahar shortly before dusk, we bumped through the most spectacular Mongolian scenery I had seen so far: a broad valley between two knobbled mountain ridges.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Pulling onto a minor road near Qahar shortly before dusk, we bumped through the most spectacular Mongolian scenery I had seen so far: a broad valley between two knobbled mountain ridges.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Pulling onto a minor road near Qahar shortly before dusk, we bumped through the most spectacular Mongolian scenery I had seen so far: a broad valley between two knobbled mountain ridges.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Looking forward to hearing what Gates has to say: Orlowski reports that Vista is knobbled from an HD POV and therefore useless!
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Frail and fine and stooped from a knot in the center of his knobbled back.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Against the southern wall, an ancient and knobbled tree was growing.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
GHibbs commented on the word knobbled
There are already adjectival uses in the examples.
"“Are those who are out to get the Arsenal captain the same people who knobbled Hennes the Billy Goat?”" The Guardian: Why the witch-hunt against Cesc Fábregas gets my goat | Harry Pearson. This is simple past tense of the informal verb 'knobble'. There are a few other examples of this use in the list on this page.
August 20, 2011