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单词 knurly
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knurlyadj.

Forms: Also 1800s gnurly, 1800s nurly.
Etymology: < knurl n. + -y suffix1.
a. Having knurls or knots; gnarled.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots
knarryc1405
knottedc1440
crabbed?1518
knubbed1567
warried1567
warry1567
scraggy1574
crab-knob1582
knurly1602
gnarleda1616
thwarterous1625
nodous1646
snubbya1758
snarly1770
swirly1786
gnarly1846
knarred1849
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. Hv Till by degrees the tough and knurly trunke Be riu'd in sunder.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 6 The high timbring Oake..denotates a rich and battle soile:..the knurly, crooked and crabbed..starueling bewraies his barren and hungrie bedde.
1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 32 He's tall, like swamp cedar,..But shrub-oak was never so nurly. Note, A yankeyism, for knotty, or gnarled.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 298 Nurly, a corrupt pronunciation and orthography of gnarly, i.e. gnarled.
1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 620 Persons..are said to be nurly when they are ill-tempered and cross-grained.
b. Of the nature of a knurl, dwarfish.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [adjective] > imperfect development
urled1691
knurly1758
nanoid1857
hypoplastic1877
achondroplasic1893
ateleiotic1902
thanatophoric1971
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad
short shoulderedc1405
bunting1584
squaddy1593
chubby1611
truncheon1611
squat1630
squabbish1666
truss1674
squab1675
squad1675
stocky1676
punch1679
trunch1683
squat1688
stub1711
fodgel1724
thick-set1724
puddy1747
chunky1749
dumpy1750
squabby1754
knurly1758
clunch1776
trunchy1778
fubsy1780
punchy1780
humpty-dumpty1785
trunched1787
pudgy1788
fubby1790
runty1807
squattish1809
roly-poly1818
stumpy1822
hoddy-doddy1824
spuddya1825
hodmandod1825
stubby1831
podgy1832
fubsical1834
dumpty1847
fatling1847
stuggy1847
nuggety1856
cloddy1876
blocky1879
chumpy188.
cobby1883
squidgy1891
stockish1913
pyknic1925
humpisha1935
1758 J. Adams Diary 5 Dec. (1961) I. 60 A little nurley ill natured Horse.
1841 Knickerbocker Mag. 17 48 A few handsful of little green, gnurly, ligneous fragments, which the Key Westers facetiously term ‘fire-wood’.
1882 Garden 18 Mar. 182/2 This..apple..is knurly and imperfect at first.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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