Crossword clues for knobby
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knobby \Knob"by\, a. [From Knob.]
Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
--Dr. H. More.-
Irregular; stubborn in particulars. [Obs.]
The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy.
--Howell. Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.]
--Bartlett.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from knob + -y (2). Alternative form knobbly attested from 1859. Related: Knobbiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 resembling a knob 2 (context British English) pleasantly small
WordNet
adj. having knobs; "had knobbly knees" [syn: knobbly]
Usage examples of "knobby".
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Then it is on, on to spy on something with a long neck and a comic knobby head, and then to watch a pair of angry ceratopsians butting heads in slow motion, and then to applaud the elegant migration of a herd of towering duckbills across the horizon.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duck-billed monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Sunday papers, dressed dandily and peculiarly, plus-fours and a knobby walking-stick, a dog beside him.
The matron was tall with knobby hands, and her fingers were covered with fawny rings.
The door to the bus opened with a whoosh, and Sally wobbled out, all long, gangly, hairy legs and knobby knees, in his red chiffon cocktail dress and four-inch red sequined heels.
He has a face of that rubicund, knobby type I have heard an indignant mineralogist speak of as botryoidal, and about it waves a quantity of disorderly blond hair.
Though the nuggar had cleaned out most of the tubers, she found enough and tied the hard knobby roots into a bundle using vine fiber then knotted a sling for them from that same fiber and slipped it over her shoulder.
Oh, hell, there she went with that finger, like the finger of God, only knobby and swole up with arthritis.
The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat-topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.
She pointed a finger so knobby it most resembled a dead twig from an appleberry tree, and the black queen burst into flame.
He could see the knobby calcaneus in her bare heel, uncushioned by flesh, as she left the room.
He moved a little way off, poking with his staff at the hard, cracked clay of the ground, the knobby yellow twigs of the catclaw snagging at his mantle and the blown dust blurring his tracks.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Immediately ahead rose a low knoll, studded thickly with knobby acacia and skeletal leadwood trees.