knotted
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Adjective[edit]
knotted (comparative more knotted, superlative most knotted)
- Full of knots; knotty.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
- These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
- Tied in knots.
- Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
- Having the shape or form of a knot.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
- Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
full of knots
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Verb[edit]
knotted
- simple past and past participle of knot
- He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
- Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The past participle of a rare verb knotten.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
knotted
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “knotten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
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