Knob"by, a. [From Knob.]
1.
Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
Dr. H. More.
2.
Irregular; stubborn in particulars.
[Obs.]
The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy.
Howell.
3.
Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.
[U.S.]
Bartlett.
© Webster 1913.