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knubbly

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[nuhb-lee] / ˈnʌb li /

adjective

knubblier, knubbliest
  1. a variant of nubbly.


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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

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

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.

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 Boyd, Mary Stuart

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 De la Mare, Walter

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