Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Knotty; full of knots; rough with knots; having prominent joints.
- Hence Rough in temper; cross; waspish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having many
protuberances ,knobs orknots ;knotty ,rough orrugged .
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Examples
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We crawled and banged another mile and a half, parked at the end of the road, the Mahogany Flat Campground, shouldered packs, and began the 7-mile hike to the knaggy summit.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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We crawled and banged another mile and a half, parked at the end of the road, the Mahogany Flat Campground, shouldered packs, and began the 7-mile hike to the knaggy summit.
Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part I Richard Bangs 2011
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But to enter in thereat, because it is of a knaggy, difficult, and rugged access, this is the question which I ask of you.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But to enter in thereat, because it is of a knaggy, difficult, and rugged access, this is the question which I ask of you.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When she married she would cultivate the soil like the other women; her flower-like whiteness would fade and turn yellow; her hands would become black and scaly; she would be like her mother and all the old peasant women, a female skeleton, bent and knaggy, like the trunk of an olive tree.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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The other from tribulus, the head of a flail, or flagel, knaggy and knotty, (made commonly, as I take it, of a thick black thorn,) and then it imports, that afflictions falling upon us as heavy as the flail threshing the corn are styled tribulations.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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But to enter in thereat, because it is of a knaggy, difficult, and rugged access, this is the question which I ask of you.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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(whose back is impenetrable) hath knaggy horns as also the _Hart_, 4.
The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631
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Even then, with the heartless cruelty of the race, they will dispatch an old man to the distant forest with an ax, whence he returns with his white head painfully bowed under a back-load of knaggy limbs, and his bare bronzed bowlegs moving on with that catlike softness and evenness of the Indian, but so slowly that he scarcely seems to get on at all. "[
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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