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▪ I. knobby, a.|ˈnɒbɪ| Also 6–7 knobbie, 9 nobby. [f. knob n. + -y1.] 1. Full of, abounding in, bearing, or covered with knobs or protuberances; knotty.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 166 Ovide sayth..no medicine can heale the knobbie gout. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 235 A crooked and knobby tree must first be hewed and squared. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. App. xxxiii, Humours did arrive His knobby head, and a fair pair of horns contrive. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 140 The smooth loose land should be first rolled, and the rough knobby land be deferred. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxiii, His face was almost as hard and knobby as his stick. fig.1640Howell Dodona's Gr. (1645) 124 The Informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy. 2. Of the nature of a knob, knob-shaped.
1764Grainger Sugar Cane iv. 274 When no more Round knobby spots deform, but the disease Seems at a pause. 1848Dickens Dombey x. (C.D. ed.) 82 The captain..brought out his wide suit of blue..and his knobby nose in full relief. 3. Full of rounded knolls or hills; hilly. U.S.
1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. liii. 558 It is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads. ▪ II. knobby, n. Austral.|ˈnɒbɪ| [f. the adj.] An opal.
1921K. S. Prichard Black Opal i. i. 8 ‘Look at this..and this!’ he cried eagerly, going over the two or three small knobbies in his hand... ‘I'm going in now,’ he said, thrusting the opals into the bag. Ibid. iii. 23 Paul was holding up a good-looking knobby so that red, green, and gold lights glittered through its shining potch as he moved it. 1971J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 24 Knobby, opal which is found as a solid lump..rather than in a seam formation. |