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Knuckle vs Knuckly - What's the difference?

knuckle | knuckly |

As a noun knuckle

is any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.

As a verb knuckle

is to apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.

As an adjective knuckly is

knucklelike.

knuckle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
  • (by extension) A mechanical joint.
  • A cut of meat.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
  • The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
  • * Golding
    • With weary knuckles on thy brim she kneeled sadly down.
  • (obsolete) The joint of a plant.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
  • A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
    • brass knuckles

    Derived terms

    * brass knuckles * knuckle down * knuckle joint * knuckle under * knuckleball * knuckledragger * knuckleduster * knucklehead * knuckle sandwich * near the knuckle * white-knuckled * white knuckle ride

    Verb

    (knuckl)
  • To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
    • He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.

    knuckly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Knucklelike.
  • *
    • a rock-face whose crown overhung its base and whose extensive surface was knuckly with the clay nests of innumerable martins
  • Having prominent knuckles.
  • *, chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}