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Definition of Knobby
1. Adjective. Having knobs. "Had knobbly knees"
Definition of Knobby
1. a. Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
Definition of Knobby
1. Adjective. resembling a knob ¹
2. Adjective. (British) pleasantly small ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knobby
1. full of knobs [adj -BIER, -BIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knobby
Literary usage of Knobby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"... in Muscle ; in Nerve ; its knobby Proliferation ; in Vessels.—Organization of
tlie Thrombus.—Arterial collateral Circulation. TO-DAY I Lave first simply ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Der. poll, to cut off the hair of the head. Also poll-ard, a tree that is polled,
leaving a large knobby head; also, formerly, a clipped coin. figure. ..."
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