Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having knobs or hard protuberances.
- Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.
- Hard; stubborn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
- adjective obsolete Irregular; stubborn in particulars.
- adjective U.S. Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective resembling a
knob - adjective UK
pleasantly small
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having knobs
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Examples
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His first eight days in captivity he spent in a room called the knobby room, a kind of torture room.
Nasmyth, John H. Jr. 1991
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To the "elderly scribe" was allotted the bed, a very finely carved wooden erection; but let me at once own that, although I had slept on hay in a tent in other lands, passed a night on a dining-room table, several on the floor, and in deck-chairs, I never slept in anything quite so "knobby" as that extraordinary bed.
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Also included is the aforementioned blooper reel, along with deleted scenes with commentary, which include the manufacturing of Jell-O shots and Gretchen's attempts to make the word "knobby" happen.
The Trades 2009
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It's very 'knobby' and it's fun not to have labels!
MATRIXSYNTH 2008
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These pale, skinny legs and knobby knees are no sin to cover up ... lol. sioux4noff
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These pale, skinny legs and knobby knees are no sin to cover up ... lol. sioux4noff
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These pale, skinny legs and knobby knees are no sin to cover up ... lol. sioux4noff
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If a stud does rip out, simply patch it with a tire plug and then install a new stud a little further away on the knobby.
Top 10 Tire Tips! Cassandra 2009
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These pale, skinny legs and knobby knees are no sin to cover up ... lol. sioux4noff
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Amy Newman jogged along Montpelier's Main Street early Monday afternoon pushing a three-wheeled stroller with big, knobby tires and carrying her 3-year-old son, Wakeland.
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