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knobby

/nob-ee/US // ˈnɒb i //UK // (ˈnɒbɪ) //

骑士,骑士风范,骑士精神,骑士团

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    knob·bi·er, knob·bi·est.

    • : full of or covered with knobs: the knobby trunk of a tree.
    • : shaped like a knob.

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Examples

  • In the way of unplugged children with nothing but time and imagination, I studied them, identifying faces in their knobby protuberances.

  • Each of its knobby blooms burst from the soil as skirted masses of tiny same-sex nubbins.

  • He saw a nose and a little, knobby chin and a bit of pinkish forehead with the pale yellow of hair above.

  • The knobs on the trunk of a young pine reminded Franz strongly of knobby-kneed young Hertha Bittner.

  • The rest of his ruddy, knobby countenance, his erratic hair and his general hairy leanness had not even—to my perceptions grown.

  • Mr. Caslon leaped nimbly to one side and whacked the goat savagely across the back with his knobby stick.

  • A beggar's sack hangs down over his ragged clothing, his hand holds a knobby stick.