A list of 37 words by snack.
- mummerywas added by snack and appears on 35 lists
- factitiouswas added by snack and appears on 113 lists
- telling detailwas added by snack and appears on 6 lists
- stalking horsewas added by snack and appears on 17 lists
- chisel-wittedwas added by snack and appears on 5 lists
- woolgatheringwas added by snack and appears on 45 lists
- apperceptivewas added by snack and appears on 8 lists
- felix culpawas added by snack and appears on 15 lists
- supposititiouswas added by snack and appears on 28 lists
- Momuswas added by snack and appears on 12 lists
- take for a ridewas added by snack and appears on 6 lists
- aliquotwas added by snack and appears on 50 lists
- pepperywas added by snack and appears on 19 lists
- frostywas added by snack and appears on 26 lists
- hand wavingwas added by snack and appears on 2 lists
- militatewas added by snack and appears on 61 lists
- anomiewas added by snack and appears on 152 lists
- Dickens Grotesqueswas added by snack and appears on 2 lists
- tumbrelwas added by snack and appears on 33 lists
- dispensationwas added by snack and appears on 50 lists
- pinchedwas added by snack and appears on 6 lists
- ill-favoredwas added by snack and appears on 7 lists
- well-favoredwas added by snack and appears on 8 lists
- leadenwas added by snack and appears on 36 lists
- mishpochawas added by snack and appears on 10 lists
- knotty pointwas added by snack and appears on 2 lists
- pay the piperwas added by snack and appears on 5 lists
- belabor the pointwas added by snack and appears on 2 lists
- take heartwas added by snack and appears on 6 lists
- waylaywas added by snack and appears on 68 lists
- palliationwas added by snack and appears on 19 lists
- conventiclewas added by snack and appears on 31 lists
- needfulwas added by snack and appears on 13 lists
- knottywas added by snack and appears on 40 lists
- God's knotty logwas added by snack and appears on just this list
- self-willedwas added by snack and appears on 7 lists
- easily-ledwas added by snack and appears on 3 lists
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knotty
2.2 fig. Full of intellectual difficulties or complications of thought; hard to ‘unravel’, explain, or solve; involved, intricate, perplexing, puzzling. (Sometimes with mixture of sense 4.)
1702 Pope Jan. & May 140 The knotty point was urg'd on either side. 1874 Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §79 (1879) 83 The man who is‥in a complete reverie, unravelling some knotty subject.
knotty-pated (+clay-brained)
5.5 Comb., as knotty-pated adj. perh. associated with not-headed, not-pated (1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 78), blockheaded.
1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 251 Thou Clay-brayn'd Guts, thou Knotty-pated Foole.
August 21, 2021