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knobby

[nob-ee] / ˈnɒb i /
ADJECTIVE
knobbed
Synonyms


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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

Celeriac — the knobby, subterranean root of the celery plant — makes an especially luxurious purée after a simmer in stock and dairy.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

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

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

She neared what had been a promising colony of knobby brain coral, tiny and dome-shaped with undulating ridges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Maybe everybody’s skull is knobby and weird underneath their hair, but on Jasper Jr. it made him look even meaner.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

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

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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