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单词 knuckly
释义

knuckly

English

Etymology

From knuckle + -y.

Adjective

knuckly (comparative knucklier, superlative knuckliest)

  1. Knucklelike.
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
      a rock-face whose crown overhung its base and whose extensive surface was knuckly with the clay nests of innumerable martins
  2. Having prominent knuckles.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
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