Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of having knobs or of being full of protuberances.
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- noun The state or condition of being
knobby .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Manfried possessed disproportionately large ears, while Hegel's nose dwarfed many a turnip in size and knobbiness.
November 2009 2009
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So is her treatment of the emotional knobbiness of grief.
Maggie Pouncey's 'Perfect Reader' about a young woman and her father's poems Sarah L. Courteau 2010
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Manfried possessed disproportionately large ears, while Hegel's nose dwarfed many a turnip in size and knobbiness.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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Manfried possessed disproportionately large ears, while Hegel's nose dwarfed many a turnip in size and knobbiness.
Guest Blogger: Jesse Bullington Omnivoracious 2009
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And I'm glad I did, because not only do I feel like I'm riding a new bike, but there's also still enough residual knobbiness left for them to make that meditative Om-like humming sound on the pavement, thus reinvigorating my sun-baked soul.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dog Days BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Seth lifted his hands before him, looking at the knobbiness of his fingers, the gaunt cords in his wrists.
Archive 2004-07-01 Holly 2004
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Seth lifted his hands before him, looking at the knobbiness of his fingers, the gaunt cords in his wrists.
insomnia, part eleven Holly 2004
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His brow ridge still didn't have the knobbiness that came with age, and his forehead still shone with youthful glimmer.
Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000
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_ -- Stock should be practically free from serious external imperfections, including late blight rot, common scab, sunburn, frost injury, bruises, knobbiness, second growth, etc.
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Unwrapping some white mosquito-netting, she presented to view a large, bulbous object encircled with protuberances, excrescenced with golden knobbiness -- this object, strangely sticky, smelled something like bananas; it was the Everything, completed and unveiled.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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