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–adjective, -bi·er, -bi·est.

1.	full of or covered with knobs: the knobby trunk of a tree.

2.	shaped like a knob.

[Origin: 1535–45; knob + -y¹

]

—Related forms

knob·bi·ness, noun

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n.

A rounded protuberance.
1. A rounded handle, as on a drawer or door.
2. A rounded control switch or dial.
A prominent rounded hill or mountain.

[Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German, knot in wood.]

knobbed (nŏbd) adj., knob'bi·ness n., knob'by adj.

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knobby
adjective
having knobs; "had knobbly knees"

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Knobby

Knob"by\, a. [From Knob.]

1. Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. --Dr. H. More.

2. Irregular; stubborn in particulars. [Obs.]

The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy. --Howell.

3. Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] --Bartlett.

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