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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

... beneath the frosty stars, after the tepid air within, awakened me like the shock of cold water. Redmond was awaiting us with a lantern. By the horse block lay the mass of something indeterminate which I presently saw to be sacks full of something knobby. ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

... myself, Sue, yes I did!" said Lydia, with dry lips. She sat, a shapeless, shabby figure, on the side of the bed, and pressed a veined hand tightly against her knobby temples, "I brought it on myself. I want to tell you about it. I haven't given Mary even a hint! Chrissy has been ill, her throat—they've had a nurse, but she liked me to sit with her now and then. So I was sitting there awhile this morning, and Mrs. Lawrence's sister, Miss Bacon, came in, and she ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... cloud," said Rosanna, unconscious of startling her grandmother. "It is very good of him, only his nose is even funnier than it is really. Sort of knobby, you know." ...

— The Girl Scouts at Home - or Rosanna's Beautiful Day • Katherine Keene Galt

... the frosty stars, after the tepid air within, awakened me like the shock of cold water. Redmond was awaiting us with a lantern. By the horse block lay the mass of something indeterminate which I presently saw to be sacks full of something knobby. ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

... afternoon they were doubly welcome, because easy to arrange. She sorted them into long-necked vases swiftly, carrying each vase, when filled, to the drawing-room—a painful apartment, crowded with knick-knacks until it resembled a bazaar stall, with knobby and unsteady bamboo furniture and much drapery of a would-be artistic nature. It was stuffy and airless. Cecilia wrinkled her pretty nose as she entered. Mrs. Rainham held pronounced views on the subject of what she termed ...

— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

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