Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having prominent knuckles or finger-joints.
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- adjective
Knucklelike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He shook it with his callused, knuckly one, and with that they established their truce.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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He shook it with his callused, knuckly one, and with that they established their truce.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Like a 3D image of a hand only with the fingers curled into a fist, so it's just a big fricking knuckly lump if you're looking at the outline and a ball of bones all folded over one another if you're looking at the skeleton.
Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008
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Like a 3D image of a hand only with the fingers curled into a fist, so it's just a big fricking knuckly lump if you're looking at the outline and a ball of bones all folded over one another if you're looking at the skeleton.
Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008
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He shook it with his callused, knuckly one, and with that they established their truce.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Like a 3D image of a hand only with the fingers curled into a fist, so it's just a big fricking knuckly lump if you're looking at the outline and a ball of bones all folded over one another if you're looking at the skeleton.
Archive 2008-06-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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His fists were balled into knuckly knots at his sides.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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Then they usually ask what that fleshy, knuckly looking thing is approaching rapidly from their left.
catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2006
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She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled over her: the awkward knuckly L-shape of it; the black walnut bed with apples and spotty pears carved on the headboard; the imitation maple bureau, with pink-daubed scent-bottles and a petticoated pin-cushion on a marble slab uncomfortably like a gravestone; the plain pine washstand and the garlanded water - pitcher and bowl.
Main Street 2004
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But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bed-clothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.
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