knobbyn.

Brit.

/ˈnɒbi/, U.S.

/ˈnɑbi/, Australian English

/ˈnɔbi/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: knobby adj.

Etymology: < knobby adj. With sense 1 compare nobby n.⁴ With sense 2 compare slightly earlier knobbly n. 2.Occasional earlier examples of knobbie in Scots, denoting e.g. a wooden button (1864) or a hillock (1906), show a different formation ( < knob n. + -y suffix⁶).

1. Australian. A black opal occurring as a nodule coated with sandstone or opal dirt; = nobby n.⁴

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > opal > [noun]

opala1398

pederote1585

stone1895

opalite1896

knobby1910

1910 Austral. Mining Standard 9 Nov. 492/1 Small stones, that have escaped the observation of the digger, these being, as the knobbies often are, incased in clay or chalky substances.

1921 K. 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.

2016 I. T. Walker Dam Diligent (Electronic ed.) II. xviii. Most miners used diving [sic] rods to locate underground faults in the sandstone where there was a good chance of coming across a pocket of knobbies.

2. colloquial. A tyre (now esp. on a motorcycle or mountain bike) having a deeply-grooved tread with raised bumps, intended for off-road use; = knobbly n. 2. Usually in plural.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > types of

sidewall1901

non-skid1905

retread1909

remould1928

recap1929

knobbly1938

knobby1943

whitewall1950

slick1959

bias-ply1964

radial1964

cross-ply1965

snow1968

Pennsylvania cap1971

wet1977

1943 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 18 Nov. 13/7 (advt.) Ford coach. 2 of the tires are brand new pre-war Grade 1 Knobbies.

1970 Pop. Sci. July 59/1 Knobby tires are best for strictly off-road use. But..universal-tread tires..behave better on pavement than the knobbies.

1989 D. Coello Compl. Mountain Biker ii. 40 Twigs, tree limbs, flying rock from a fellow biker's rear knobby, any projectile can have disastrous results.

2016 Bicycle Times June 49/2 Rip the fenders off and throw on some knobbies for a long weekend gravel bike-packing adventure.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

knobbyadj.

Brit.

/ˈnɒbi/, U.S.

/ˈnɑbi/

Forms: see knob n. and -y suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: knob n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < knob n. + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier knotty adj. With sense 2a compare also knoppy adj.

†1. Of blood: (perhaps) containing clots or impurities. Obsolete. rare.

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c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 119^v (MED) And if it be in þe longis, þanne schal þe blood be knobby & ofte stynkynge.

a. Covered with small lumps, bumps, or protuberances; (often, esp. in early use) spec. gnarled, knotty, misshapen.Knobbly is now the more usual form in British English and varieties close to it. See knobbly adj. 2.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > having (a) protuberance(s) > having knobbles or knots

knurneda1225

warreda1398

knarryc1405

knottyc1405

knurredc1430

knurry1513

knobby1526

knurrish1530

knappy1552

bunchy1562

gouty1597

nody1611

boiny1615

gnarleda1616

nodosous1623

nodose1657

tuberose1704

nodated1710

knablick1788

tuberculed1798

knubbly1809

knubby1828

nubbly1829

knobbled1840

knobbly1844

knarred1849

nubby1864

1526 Grete Herball lxxxi. sig. Civ^v/2 Behyn is a sharpe or rugh excrescente that cometh on knobby rotes.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. v. f. 166/2 Ouide sayth..no medicyne can heale the knobbie gout.

1582 A. Dent Serm. Repentaunce sig. C2 Harde knobbie timber, must haue harde wedges, and hard strokes with a beetle.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 75/1 [The buckler gourd] is termed the rugged Gourd, being knobby and rough.

1765 J. Hill Power of Water-dock against Scurvy 14 Beware of what are sold by some in the markets: they are knobby, and spungy.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxiii. 389 His face was almost as hard and knobby as his stick.

1857 E. Rigby On Constit. Treatm. Female Dis. v. 115 The os uteri is usually swollen, uneven, and knobby.

1986 A. Munro Progress of Love (1987) 22 Beryl was an old woman, all knobby and twisted up with arthritis.

2018 Financial Express (India) (Nexis) 25 May If you choose knobby tyres, it would be great for off road usage.

b. figurative.

(a) Hard or uncompromising in character or attitude; unpleasant or abrasive in manner; (later) difficult to please or satisfy.In early use compare knotty adj. 4, warty adj. 4. In later use probably an extension of sense 2b(b).

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1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. sig. D4 A stiffe crooked knobby inflexible tyrannous creature he grows.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 174 The Informers continued in a knobby kinde of obstinacy.

1917 W. M. Reedy Let. 22 Nov. in M. Putzel Man in Mirror (1998) xiv. 167 He [sc. Ezra Pound] is a most thorny and knobby person but there is some substance to him.

2018 @Steeltown_Worms 12 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Must remember to tell class that my comments are not meant to be ‘knobby’, they are meant to point out how certain phrasing can be interpreted.

(b) Difficult, complex, or challenging; hard to solve, overcome, or deal with. Cf. knotty adj. 2.In quot. 1862 punning on knob n. 4b.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > difficult to do or accomplish

higheOE

grievousc1386

steep1598

arduous1718

leg-breaking1835

knobby1862

nut-cracking1982

1862 Leisure Hour 5 July 429/2 Mr. Rivers could have wished his prime minister's heart not been so much in door handles; when once she set to work on that knobby subject, farewell to composition or anything else agreeable, for her rattling was heard all over the house.

1894 Valparaiso Rev. 15 Dec. 216/2 He did all the talking, arguing both sides of the case, propounding knobby questions and answering them himself.

1906 North German Lloyd Bull. Dec. 6/1 No amount of politeness can disguise the hard and knobby fact that the conveyances..are, in spite of the guide books and local grandiloquence, char-a-bancs, and not coaches.

2013 CNN Newsroom (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 12 Sept. So those are, as you can see, some of the, you know, knobby problems that are already arising.

3. Shaped like a knob; that is in the form of a small, rounded lump or protuberance.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > like a knob

knobby1567

nubbly1829

1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs iii. f.19^v Yea though with dayly trade and toyle our hands well hardened be, And full of knobby hils our fistes.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 594 Long slender Threds, with little knobby parts thereon.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 139 When no more Round knobby spots deform, but the disease Seems at a pause.

1879 Illustr. Farmers & Gardeners Almanack 65/2 A supply of small knobby lumps of coal.

1918 ‘B. M. Bower’ Cabin Fever xiv. 192 He saw a nose and a little, knobby chin and a bit of pinkish forehead.

2016 Delicious Living (Nexis) Jan. 16 The knobby protrusions expertly massage tight muscles in your back and legs.

4. North American. Of a landscape: characterized by prominent rounded knolls or hills. Cf. knob n. 2.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > characterized by

cloudyc893

hilly?a1475

hillous1550

downy1671

knobby1834

1834 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 380 Pocomoke River..Pockhammókîk, knobby, broken with knobs, hills.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad liii. 558 [Jerusalem] is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads.

1959 F. C. Westin et al. Soil Surv. Brookings County, S. Dakota (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 36/2 It occurs..as eroded points and knobs throughout a rolling and knobby landscape.

1999 A. Vileisis Discovering Unknown Landscape (new ed.) iii. 29 He..was content to find a homesite with a reliable spring on the narrow, knobby peninsula.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	knobby
释义	knobbyn. Brit. /ˈnɒbi/, U.S. /ˈnɑbi/, Australian English /ˈnɔbi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: knobby adj. Etymology: < knobby adj. With sense 1 compare nobby n.⁴ With sense 2 compare slightly earlier knobbly n. 2.Occasional earlier examples of knobbie in Scots, denoting e.g. a wooden button (1864) or a hillock (1906), show a different formation ( < knob n. + -y suffix⁶). 1. Australian. A black opal occurring as a nodule coated with sandstone or opal dirt; = nobby n.⁴ ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > opal > [noun] opala1398 pederote1585 stone1895 opalite1896 knobby1910 1910 Austral. Mining Standard 9 Nov. 492/1 Small stones, that have escaped the observation of the digger, these being, as the knobbies often are, incased in clay or chalky substances. 1921 K. 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. 2016 I. T. Walker Dam Diligent (Electronic ed.) II. xviii. Most miners used diving [sic] rods to locate underground faults in the sandstone where there was a good chance of coming across a pocket of knobbies. 2. colloquial. A tyre (now esp. on a motorcycle or mountain bike) having a deeply-grooved tread with raised bumps, intended for off-road use; = knobbly n. 2. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > types of sidewall1901 non-skid1905 retread1909 remould1928 recap1929 knobbly1938 knobby1943 whitewall1950 slick1959 bias-ply1964 radial1964 cross-ply1965 snow1968 Pennsylvania cap1971 wet1977 1943 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 18 Nov. 13/7 (advt.) Ford coach. 2 of the tires are brand new pre-war Grade 1 Knobbies. 1970 Pop. Sci. July 59/1 Knobby tires are best for strictly off-road use. But..universal-tread tires..behave better on pavement than the knobbies. 1989 D. Coello Compl. Mountain Biker ii. 40 Twigs, tree limbs, flying rock from a fellow biker's rear knobby, any projectile can have disastrous results. 2016 Bicycle Times June 49/2 Rip the fenders off and throw on some knobbies for a long weekend gravel bike-packing adventure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). knobbyadj. Brit. /ˈnɒbi/, U.S. /ˈnɑbi/ Forms: see knob n. and -y suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: knob n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < knob n. + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier knotty adj. With sense 2a compare also knoppy adj. †1. Of blood: (perhaps) containing clots or impurities. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 119^v (MED) And if it be in þe longis, þanne schal þe blood be knobby & ofte stynkynge. 2. a. Covered with small lumps, bumps, or protuberances; (often, esp. in early use) spec. gnarled, knotty, misshapen.Knobbly is now the more usual form in British English and varieties close to it. See knobbly adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > having (a) protuberance(s) > having knobbles or knots knurneda1225 warreda1398 knarryc1405 knottyc1405 knurredc1430 knurry1513 knobby1526 knurrish1530 knappy1552 bunchy1562 gouty1597 nody1611 boiny1615 gnarleda1616 nodosous1623 nodose1657 tuberose1704 nodated1710 knablick1788 tuberculed1798 knubbly1809 knubby1828 nubbly1829 knobbled1840 knobbly1844 knarred1849 nubby1864 1526 Grete Herball lxxxi. sig. Civ^v/2 Behyn is a sharpe or rugh excrescente that cometh on knobby rotes. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. v. f. 166/2 Ouide sayth..no medicyne can heale the knobbie gout. 1582 A. Dent Serm. Repentaunce sig. C2 Harde knobbie timber, must haue harde wedges, and hard strokes with a beetle. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 75/1 [The buckler gourd] is termed the rugged Gourd, being knobby and rough. 1765 J. Hill Power of Water-dock against Scurvy 14 Beware of what are sold by some in the markets: they are knobby, and spungy. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxiii. 389 His face was almost as hard and knobby as his stick. 1857 E. Rigby On Constit. Treatm. Female Dis. v. 115 The os uteri is usually swollen, uneven, and knobby. 1986 A. Munro Progress of Love (1987) 22 Beryl was an old woman, all knobby and twisted up with arthritis. 2018 Financial Express (India) (Nexis) 25 May If you choose knobby tyres, it would be great for off road usage. b. figurative. (a) Hard or uncompromising in character or attitude; unpleasant or abrasive in manner; (later) difficult to please or satisfy.In early use compare knotty adj. 4, warty adj. 4. In later use probably an extension of sense 2b(b). ΚΠ 1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. sig. D4 A stiffe crooked knobby inflexible tyrannous creature he grows. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 174 The Informers continued in a knobby kinde of obstinacy. 1917 W. M. Reedy Let. 22 Nov. in M. Putzel Man in Mirror (1998) xiv. 167 He [sc. Ezra Pound] is a most thorny and knobby person but there is some substance to him. 2018 @Steeltown_Worms 12 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Must remember to tell class that my comments are not meant to be ‘knobby’, they are meant to point out how certain phrasing can be interpreted. (b) Difficult, complex, or challenging; hard to solve, overcome, or deal with. Cf. knotty adj. 2.In quot. 1862 punning on knob n. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > difficult to do or accomplish higheOE grievousc1386 steep1598 arduous1718 leg-breaking1835 knobby1862 nut-cracking1982 1862 Leisure Hour 5 July 429/2 Mr. Rivers could have wished his prime minister's heart not been so much in door handles; when once she set to work on that knobby subject, farewell to composition or anything else agreeable, for her rattling was heard all over the house. 1894 Valparaiso Rev. 15 Dec. 216/2 He did all the talking, arguing both sides of the case, propounding knobby questions and answering them himself. 1906 North German Lloyd Bull. Dec. 6/1 No amount of politeness can disguise the hard and knobby fact that the conveyances..are, in spite of the guide books and local grandiloquence, char-a-bancs, and not coaches. 2013 CNN Newsroom (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 12 Sept. So those are, as you can see, some of the, you know, knobby problems that are already arising. 3. Shaped like a knob; that is in the form of a small, rounded lump or protuberance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > like a knob knobby1567 nubbly1829 1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs iii. f.19^v Yea though with dayly trade and toyle our hands well hardened be, And full of knobby hils our fistes. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 594 Long slender Threds, with little knobby parts thereon. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 139 When no more Round knobby spots deform, but the disease Seems at a pause. 1879 Illustr. Farmers & Gardeners Almanack 65/2 A supply of small knobby lumps of coal. 1918 ‘B. M. Bower’ Cabin Fever xiv. 192 He saw a nose and a little, knobby chin and a bit of pinkish forehead. 2016 Delicious Living (Nexis) Jan. 16 The knobby protrusions expertly massage tight muscles in your back and legs. 4. North American. Of a landscape: characterized by prominent rounded knolls or hills. Cf. knob n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > characterized by cloudyc893 hilly?a1475 hillous1550 downy1671 knobby1834 1834 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 380 Pocomoke River..Pockhammókîk, knobby, broken with knobs, hills. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad liii. 558 [Jerusalem] is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads. 1959 F. C. Westin et al. Soil Surv. Brookings County, S. Dakota (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 36/2 It occurs..as eroded points and knobs throughout a rolling and knobby landscape. 1999 A. Vileisis Discovering Unknown Landscape (new ed.) iii. 29 He..was content to find a homesite with a reliable spring on the narrow, knobby peninsula. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910adj.c1475
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