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adjective

Knobby adj.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.

Irregular; stubborn in particulars. (Obs.) "The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy."

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. (U.S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Knobby" Quotes from Famous Books

... Joined a game of knobby skulls With the youngsters of his year, All the other little bulls, Learning both to bruise and bear, Learning how to stand a shock Like ...

— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

... the gold underneath his pillow in case any one should steal it during the night. Then he went to bed and tried to sleep. But he was too excited; besides the gold under his pillow made it so hard and knobby that ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various

... the child was all knobby legs and hair ribbons. She scudded for the stable, sobbing ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... a little uneasy when Ezra reported, because he didn't just look as if he had had a call to leather. He was a tall, spare New Englander, with one of those knobby foreheads which has been pushed out by the overcrowding of the brain, or bulged by the thickening of the skull, according as you like or dislike the man. His manners were easy or familiar by the same standard. He told me right at the start ...

— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... well enriched with stable manure, so much the better; it should have a fairly open situation; it is not only a Sunflower in name and form, but it enjoys sunshine. It is self-propagating, and runs freely at the roots, immediately under the surface; the thick stolons form knobby crowns at their extremities, out of and from under which the roots issue, going straight and deep down, and so forming an ...

— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood

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