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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.

Dr. H. More.

Irregular; stubborn in particulars.

[Obs.]

The informers continued in a

knobby

kind of obstinacy.

Howell.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.

[U.S.]

Bartlett.

Adj.

nob'by. Full of knobs or hard protuberances; hard.

knobby ‎(comparative knobbier, superlative knobbiest)

resembling a knob
(Britain) pleasantly small
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