Definitions
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- adj. Having a covering of small knobs
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of knots or lumps.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. having knobs
Etymologies
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Examples
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A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts.
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At the updated resorts, events such as knobbly knees competitions are distant memories.
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Disaster for consumers: EU to allow oddly curved cucumbers and "knobbly" carrots in supermarkets!
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Room IV has a corner of fine melancholy rose- and blue-period Picassos, as well as a long wall of 11 Matisses in all the wrong colors and his knobbly bronze "Serf."
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When you coast by these places at night, you can observe under every table cloth a set of eight knobbly candle-white knees dangling from voluminous bags of shorts, above which ample stomachs are coddled by familiar, comforting tuck.
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She has not trodden the stone paths, knobbly like elephants' knees.
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With a smouldering disdain which could quickly turn to bloody-mindedness, the rams kept their composure, even though the odd knobbly bits on their foreheads were all that remained of horns and pride.
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It was something to do with the knobbly knees, the way one leg would drag coyly behind the other, and the impression of Kelly having feet that headed in opposite directions.
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Scriptwriters, directors and actors if they're any good know to leave enough of the knobbly bits of life in while reality shows don't seem to exercise the same restraint.
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At 25mm long and 10mm wide it was a big beetle with formidable mandibles like spiky daggers, serving a purpose driven by that squarish, thick-set head with eyes far apart and knobbly antennae.
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