nobbly

There are pods, called Calabacillo, smooth and ovate like a calabash, and there are others, more rare, so "nobbly" that they are well-named "Alligator."

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

He wore what his tailor's advertisements would have called a "nobbly" suit of checked tweed and -- in defiance of popular prejudice -- a brown bowler hat.

The Adventures of Sally 1928

I finished it off with a nice, nobbly crochet edging, because I figured A would enjoy sucking on it.

Baby blanket Cazzab 2007

I finished it off with a nice, nobbly crochet edging, because I figured A would enjoy sucking on it.

Archive 2007-08-01 Cazzab 2007

Can you have that when the being you're being nobbly to want you to get out?

What Would YOU Think? Steven Barnes 2008

We ate lamb, potatoes, and asparagus, and talked long over wine and coffee; and as I walked back to my apartment, I saw the trees getting nobbly with buds and the first daffodils dumbly lifting their heads in Prospect Park.

Archive 2005-03-01 Cheryl 2005

We ate lamb, potatoes, and asparagus, and talked long over wine and coffee; and as I walked back to my apartment, I saw the trees getting nobbly with buds and the first daffodils dumbly lifting their heads in Prospect Park.

Eastirrings Cheryl 2005

Grey-green forest surrounded them, out of which nobbly hills rose like islands from a sea of trees.

Australia Felix 2003

Luke-John stretched his neck until the tendons stood out like strings, and massaged his nobbly larynx.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

Luke-John stretched his neck until the tendons stood out like strings, and massaged his nobbly larynx.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968