单词 | knurly |
释义 | knurlyadj. a. Having knurls or knots; gnarled. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots knarryc1405 knottedc1440 crabbed?1518 knubbed1567 warried1567 warry1567 scraggy1574 crab-knob1582 knurly1602 gnarleda1616 thwarterous1625 nodous1646 snubbya1758 snarly1770 swirly1786 gnarly1846 knarred1849 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. Hv Till by degrees the tough and knurly trunke Be riu'd in sunder. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 6 The high timbring Oake..denotates a rich and battle soile:..the knurly, crooked and crabbed..starueling bewraies his barren and hungrie bedde. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 32 He's tall, like swamp cedar,..But shrub-oak was never so nurly. Note, A yankeyism, for knotty, or gnarled. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 298 Nurly, a corrupt pronunciation and orthography of gnarly, i.e. gnarled. 1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 620 Persons..are said to be nurly when they are ill-tempered and cross-grained. b. Of the nature of a knurl, dwarfish. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective] > imperfect development urled1691 knurly1758 nanoid1857 hypoplastic1877 achondroplasic1893 ateleiotic1902 thanatophoric1971 the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1758 J. Adams Diary 5 Dec. (1961) I. 60 A little nurley ill natured Horse. 1841 Knickerbocker Mag. 17 48 A few handsful of little green, gnurly, ligneous fragments, which the Key Westers facetiously term ‘fire-wood’. 1882 Garden 18 Mar. 182/2 This..apple..is knurly and imperfect at first. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1602 |
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