Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of knots or lumps.

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  • adjective Having a covering of small knobs

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  • adjective having knobs

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Examples

  • A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • At the updated resorts, events such as knobbly knees competitions are distant memories.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • At the updated resorts, events such as knobbly knees competitions are distant memories.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Disaster for consumers: EU to allow oddly curved cucumbers and "knobbly" carrots in supermarkets!

    The Shotgun 2008

  • With a smouldering disdain which could quickly turn to bloody-mindedness, the rams kept their composure, even though the odd knobbly bits on their foreheads were all that remained of horns and pride.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • It was something to do with the knobbly knees, the way one leg would drag coyly behind the other, and the impression of Kelly having feet that headed in opposite directions.

    Gerard Kelly obituary Mark Fisher 2010

  • Room IV has a corner of fine melancholy rose- and blue-period Picassos, as well as a long wall of 11 Matisses in all the wrong colors and his knobbly bronze "Serf."

    Souvenirs From Paris David Littlejohn 2011

  • Scriptwriters, directors and actors if they're any good know to leave enough of the knobbly bits of life in while reality shows don't seem to exercise the same restraint.

    Philippa Warr: Why Reality Television Isn't Real Philippa Warr 2011

  • When you coast by these places at night, you can observe under every table cloth a set of eight knobbly candle-white knees dangling from voluminous bags of shorts, above which ample stomachs are coddled by familiar, comforting tuck.

    Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town 2009

  • She has not trodden the stone paths, knobbly like elephants' knees.

    A Fossil With Flesh Nicholas Shakespeare 2011

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