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knucklier

knucklier is the comparative form of knuckly.

Meaning of knuckly

Adjective

knuckly (comparative knucklier, superlative knuckliest)

  1. Knucklelike.
    • [N]ow he was skirting a rock face whose crown overhung its base and whose extensive surface was knuckly with the clay nests of innumerable martins; […]1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 19, in Gormenghast (The Gormenghast Trilogy; II), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published October 1968, →OCLC, page 160
  2. Having prominent knuckles.
    • 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 307

Questions about knucklier

What is knucklier the comparative form of?
Knucklier is the comparative form of knuckly.

Words near knucklier in the dictionary

  1. knucklewalked
  2. knucklewalker
  3. knucklewalkers
  4. knucklewalking
  5. knucklewalks
  6. knucklier
  7. knuckliest
  8. knuckliness
  9. knuckling
  10. knuckling down
  11. knuckling to

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