Knobby

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Knobby \Knob"by\, a. [From {Knob}.]
     1. Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
        --Dr. H. More.
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     2. Irregular; stubborn in particulars. [Obs.]


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              The informers continued in a knobby kind of
              obstinacy.                            --Howell.
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     3. Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.]
        --Bartlett.
        [1913 Webster] knobkerrie

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knobby
       adj : having knobs; "had knobbly knees" [syn: {knobbly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "knobby":
     alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, burled, gnarled, gnarly,
     hilly, knobbed, knobbly, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled,
     knurly, lumpy, monticuline, mountained, mountainous, nodal, noded,
     nodiform, nodose, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly,
     nubby, rolling, studded, subalpine, torose, tubercular,
     tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous