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knubbly

American  
[nuhb-lee] / ˈnʌb li /

adjective

knubblier, knubbliest
  1. a variant of nubbly.


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Yes, Mulla-mulgars," he said, "and beside his bow and his sharp-nosed darts, he has three big knubbly cudgels in the corner higher than is Nod.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

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 T. R. Swinburne

He held out his hand, a dirty, knubbly, ragged-nailed hand—the hand that was once so irritatingly manicured.

From The Red Planet by William John Locke

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 William Archer

While all the fig-trees outside were still naked, one in a sheltered corner already showed bursting leaves and the diminutive knubbly warts that were to swell into fruit.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd

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