doorknobby

comparative more doorknobby · superlative most doorknobby

1. informalResembling or characteristic of a doorknob.

   Jane leans into the front seat and punches in a little doorknobby thing on the dashboard.

   1996 October, Brian Hall, chapter 18, in The Saskiad, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 108

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   The skin on his upper arms was loose; his white doorknobby knees were decidedly unattractive.

   1996 April, Antonya Nelson, chapter 12, in Talking in Bed, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, part II, page 182

   He forced his aching body to his knees, took into brief account his bloody shirt, torn trousers, sodden suit; he could see only vague forms from his left eye and felt there a great hard doorknobby swelling.

   1997, Larry L[eo] King, “Man Down”, in True Facts, Tall Tales, & Pure Fiction (Southwestern Writers Collection Series), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 200