knottyadj.

Brit.

/ˈnɒti/, U.S.

/ˈnɑdi/

Etymology: < knot n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

1. Of a cord, etc.: Having or full of knots; tied or entangled in knots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [adjective] > fastened with a knot > having knots

knottya1240

knurred1582

a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 281 Þu wes..wið cnotti swepes swungen.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 280/2 Knotty, nodosus.

1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iij^v She bare a skourge, with many a knottie string.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. v. 18 Make..Thy knotty [1603, 1604 knotted] and combined locks to part, And each particular haire to stand an end.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 14 Their haire curld,..blacke and knotty.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lvii. 328 Regardless of..the crack of his little knotty whip.

2. figurative. Full of intellectual difficulties or complications of thought; hard to ‘unravel’, explain, or solve; involved, intricate, perplexing, puzzling. (Sometimes with mixture of sense 4.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [adjective] > intricate, complex

knottya1225

curiousc1400

labyrinthialc1540

labyrinthian1588

labyrinthicala1631

labyrinthic1632

labyrinthine1775

a1225 Leg. Kath. 1157 Ich habbe uncnut summe of þeos cnotti cnotten.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie K 111 Knottie: full of knottes, or difficulties.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 189 Auoid..Anger fretting inwards; Subtill and knottie Inquisitions.

1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vii. 192 Reckoned amongst the knotty pieces of Christian Religion.

1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. d^v Æschylus, the most knotty and intricate of all the Greek Poets.

1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 186 The knotty Point was urg'd on ev'ry Side.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §79 83 The man who is..in a complete reverie, unravelling some knotty subject.

3. Abounding in or covered with knots, knobs, or rough protuberances; rugged, gnarled; containing knots, as a board.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > having (a) protuberance(s) > having knobbles or knots

knurneda1225

warreda1398

knarryc1405

knottyc1405

knurredc1430

knurry1513

knobby1526

knurrish1530

knappy1552

bunchy1562

gouty1597

nody1611

boiny1615

gnarleda1616

nodosous1623

nodose1657

tuberose1704

nodated1710

knablick1788

tuberculed1798

knubbly1809

knubby1828

nubbly1829

knobbled1840

knobbly1844

knarred1849

nubby1864

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1119 A Forest..With knotty, knarry, bareyne trees olde.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 377 Ffertile, & fressh, ek knotty, sprongen newe Thy graffes be.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 280/2 Knotty, wythe-in the flesche, glandulosus.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. viii. f. 138^v Like knots in a knotty board.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 34 The scragged and knotty Backbone.

1762 R. Guy Pract. Observ. Cancers 75 A Cancer in her Breast, rough on the Surface, with knotty Vessels.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 122 The wild shelter of a knotty oak.

1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 97 She knelt upon the grass, with her bare hard-working knotty hands clasped.

4. Hard and rough in character; rugged.

ΚΠ

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 5^v A witte..that is not ouer dulle, heauie, knottie and lumpishe.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 4 To doe this..with a smooth and pleasing lesson, which receiv'd hath the vertue to soften and dispell rooted and knotty sorrowes.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 341 A kind of blunter wedges provided by divine Wisdom to work upon those knotty tempers, upon which those instruments of a finer edg..can do no good.

1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 153/1 They beat up a little game peradventure—and leave it to knottier heads..to run it down.

5. Combinations, as knotty-pated adj. [perhaps associated with not-headed, not-pated (1 Hen. IV, ii. v. 69)] , blockheaded.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

sloweOE

stuntc960

dullOE

hardOE

stuntlyc1000

sotc1050

dillc1175

dulta1225

simplea1325

heavy1340

astonedc1374

sheepishc1380

dull-witteda1387

lourd1390

steerishc1411

ass-likea1425

brainless?a1439

deafc1440

sluggishc1450

short-witted1477

obtuse1509

peakish1519

wearish1519

deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520

doileda1522

gross1526

headlessa1530

stulty1532

ass-headed1533

pot-headed1533

stupid?1541

sheep's head1542

doltish1543

dumpish1545

assish1548

blockish1548

slow-witted1548

blockheaded1549

surd1551

dull-headed1552

hammer-headed1552

skit-brained?1553

buzzardly1561

witless1562

log-headeda1566

assy1566

sottish1566

dastardly1567

stupidious1567

beetle-headed1570

calvish1570

bluntish1578

cod's-headed1578

grout-headed1578

bedaft1579

dull-pated1580

blate1581

buzzard-like1581

long-eared1582

dullard1583

woodena1586

duncical1588

leaden-headed1589

buzzard1592

dorbellical1592

dunstical1592

heavy-headeda1593

shallow-brained1592

blunt-witted1594

mossy1597

Bœotian1598

clay-brained1598

fat1598

fat-witted1598

knotty-pated1598

stupidous1598

wit-lost1599

barren1600

duncifiedc1600

lourdish1600

stockish1600

thick1600

booby1603

leaden-pated1603

partless1603

thin-headed1603

leaden-skulledc1604

blockhead1606

frost-brained1606

ram-headed1608

beef-witted1609

insulse1609

leaden-spirited1609

asininec1610

clumse1611

blockheadly1612

wattle-headed1613

flata1616

logger-headeda1616

puppy-headeda1616

shallow-patedc1616

thick-brained1619

half-headed1621

buzzard-blinda1625

beef-brained1628

toom-headed1629

thick-witted1634

woollen-witted1635

squirrel-headed1637

clod-pated1639

lean-souled1639

muddy-headed1642

leaden-witteda1645

as sad as any mallet1645

under-headed1646

fat-headed1647

half-witted1647

insipid1651

insulsate1652

soft-headed1653

thick-skulleda1657

muddish1658

non-intelligent1659

whey-brained1660

sap-headed1665

timber-headed1666

leather-headeda1668

out of (one's) tree1669

boobily1673

thoughtless1673

lourdly1674

logger1675

unintelligenta1676

Bœotic1678

chicken-brained1678

under-witted1683

loggerhead1684

dunderheaded1692

unintelligible1694

buffle-headed1697

crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

crassous1708

doddy-polled1708

haggis-headed1715

niddy-noddy1722

muzzy1723

pudding-headed1726

sumphish1728

pitcher-souleda1739

duncey1743

hebete1743

chuckheaded1756

dumb1756

duncely1757

imbecile1766

mutton-headed1768

chuckle-headed1770

jobbernowl1770

dowfarta1774

boobyish1778

wittol1780

staumrel1787

opaquec1789

stoopid1791

mud-headed1793

borné1795

muzzy-headed1798

nog-headed1800

thick-headed1801

gypit1804

duncish1805

lightweight1809

numbskull1814

tup-headed1816

chuckle-pate1820

unintellectuala1821

dense1822

ninnyish1822

dunch1825

fozy1825

potato-headed1826

beef-headed1828

donkeyish1831

blockheadish1833

pinheaded1837

squirrel-minded1837

pumpkin-headed1838

tomfoolish1838

dundering1840

chicken-headed1842

like a bump on a log1842

ninny-minded1849

numbheadeda1852

nincompoopish1852

suet-brained1852

dolly1853

mullet-headed1853

sodden1853

fiddle-headed1854

numb1854

bovine1855

logy1859

crass1861

unsmart1861

off his chump1864

wooden-headed1865

stupe1866

lean-minded1867

duffing1869

cretinous1871

doddering1871

thick-head1873

doddling1874

stupido1879

boneheaded1883

woolly-headed1883

leaden-natured1889

suet-headed1890

sam-sodden1891

dopey1896

turnip-headed1898

bonehead1903

wool-witted1905

peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 231 Thou clay braind guts, thou knotty-pated foole.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	knotty
释义	knottyadj. Brit. /ˈnɒti/, U.S. /ˈnɑdi/ Etymology: < knot n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. Of a cord, etc.: Having or full of knots; tied or entangled in knots. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [adjective] > fastened with a knot > having knots knottya1240 knurred1582 a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 281 Þu wes..wið cnotti swepes swungen. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 280/2 Knotty, nodosus. 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iij^v She bare a skourge, with many a knottie string. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. v. 18 Make..Thy knotty [1603, 1604 knotted] and combined locks to part, And each particular haire to stand an end. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 14 Their haire curld,..blacke and knotty. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lvii. 328 Regardless of..the crack of his little knotty whip. 2. figurative. Full of intellectual difficulties or complications of thought; hard to ‘unravel’, explain, or solve; involved, intricate, perplexing, puzzling. (Sometimes with mixture of sense 4.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [adjective] > intricate, complex knottya1225 curiousc1400 labyrinthialc1540 labyrinthian1588 labyrinthicala1631 labyrinthic1632 labyrinthine1775 a1225 Leg. Kath. 1157 Ich habbe uncnut summe of þeos cnotti cnotten. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie K 111 Knottie: full of knottes, or difficulties. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 189 Auoid..Anger fretting inwards; Subtill and knottie Inquisitions. 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vii. 192 Reckoned amongst the knotty pieces of Christian Religion. 1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. d^v Æschylus, the most knotty and intricate of all the Greek Poets. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 186 The knotty Point was urg'd on ev'ry Side. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §79 83 The man who is..in a complete reverie, unravelling some knotty subject. 3. Abounding in or covered with knots, knobs, or rough protuberances; rugged, gnarled; containing knots, as a board. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > having (a) protuberance(s) > having knobbles or knots knurneda1225 warreda1398 knarryc1405 knottyc1405 knurredc1430 knurry1513 knobby1526 knurrish1530 knappy1552 bunchy1562 gouty1597 nody1611 boiny1615 gnarleda1616 nodosous1623 nodose1657 tuberose1704 nodated1710 knablick1788 tuberculed1798 knubbly1809 knubby1828 nubbly1829 knobbled1840 knobbly1844 knarred1849 nubby1864 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1119 A Forest..With knotty, knarry, bareyne trees olde. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 377 Ffertile, & fressh, ek knotty, sprongen newe Thy graffes be. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 280/2 Knotty, wythe-in the flesche, glandulosus. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. viii. f. 138^v Like knots in a knotty board. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 34 The scragged and knotty Backbone. 1762 R. Guy Pract. Observ. Cancers 75 A Cancer in her Breast, rough on the Surface, with knotty Vessels. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 122 The wild shelter of a knotty oak. 1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 97 She knelt upon the grass, with her bare hard-working knotty hands clasped. 4. Hard and rough in character; rugged. ΚΠ a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 5^v A witte..that is not ouer dulle, heauie, knottie and lumpishe. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 4 To doe this..with a smooth and pleasing lesson, which receiv'd hath the vertue to soften and dispell rooted and knotty sorrowes. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 341 A kind of blunter wedges provided by divine Wisdom to work upon those knotty tempers, upon which those instruments of a finer edg..can do no good. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 153/1 They beat up a little game peradventure—and leave it to knottier heads..to run it down. 5. Combinations, as knotty-pated adj. [perhaps associated with not-headed, not-pated (1 Hen. IV, ii. v. 69)] , blockheaded. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 231 Thou clay braind guts, thou knotty-pated foole. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1225
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