knobby
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He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Celeriac — the knobby, subterranean root of the celery plant — makes an especially luxurious purée after a simmer in stock and dairy.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
Striding forward, his sturdy right hand clutches a knobby wooden walking stick, cut from a tree branch and stripped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
There were knobby little bumps all over their heads, whichever way they turned on their pillows.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
He says that the horn-encrusted brow of T. imperator consisted of spindle-shaped lumps while T. rex’s horns were knobbier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
He looked larger and knobbier than ever and, if anything, more embarrassed.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
The Martian was a twisting, squirming, raging, biting, clawing, kicking wild tangle of knobby knees and knobbier elbows.
From The Next Time We Die by Williams, Robert Moore
With an unerring eye the vendor pounced on the smallest and knobbiest apple in the tray and offered that.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
