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knobby

[nob-ee] / ˈnɒb i /
ADJECTIVE
knobbed
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He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Suddenly the muffin feels like it’s shrugging into a velvet robe and wool slippers, pausing at the window to take in a field of knobby pines.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

Whatever it is studio technicians do seated at those knobby soundboards, Payne achieves with acting and characterization.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

“It looked just the way it does now. A clearing, lots of sunshine, that big tree with all those knobby roots. We stopped and everyone took a drink, even the horse.”

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit

He says that the horn-encrusted brow of T. imperator consisted of spindle-shaped lumps while T. rex’s horns were knobbier.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

The Martian was a twisting, squirming, raging, biting, clawing, kicking wild tangle of knobby knees and knobbier elbows.

From The Next Time We Die by Robert Moore Williams

He looked larger and knobbier than ever and, if anything, more embarrassed.

From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

With an unerring eye the vendor pounced on the smallest and knobbiest apple in the tray and offered that.

From The Deaves Affair by Hulbert Footner




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