knubbly
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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We finally selected a small bare rice patch, which, though extremely "knubbly," had the merits of being almost level, moderately remote from the village and its smells, and quite close to a perfect spring.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
He was a hard lump of granite, knubbly as sugar-candy, which almost seemed to bear a personal resemblance to "Feldtmarschall Vorw�rts."
From Tales of Two Countries by Archer, William
The roads are paved with round, knubbly stones, such as you see sometimes in narrow lanes and courts in seaside places at home.
From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
He held out his hand, a dirty, knubbly, ragged-nailed hand—the hand that was once so irritatingly manicured.
From The Red Planet by Locke, William John
But scarcely had he sunk down before he sprang up again, with a loud cry, and drew out of his coat-tail pocket a knubbly little object, which he hurled away far down the avenue.
From Tales of Two Countries by Archer, William
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