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Knurry vs Knurly - What's the difference?

knurry | knurly |

As adjectives the difference between knurry and knurly

is that knurry is (obsolete) full of knots while knurly is gnarled or knotty hard and misshapen.

knurry

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Full of knots.
    • (Drayton)

    Synonyms

    * knotty (Webster 1913)

    knurly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Gnarled or knotty. Hard and misshapen
  • *{{quote-book, year=, author=Goold Brown, title=The Grammar of English Grammars, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It seems too much like a great tree, beautiful, symmetrical, and full of leaves, but raised or desired only for fruit, yet bearing little, and some of that little not of good quality, but knurly or bitter. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Holman Day, title=The Skipper and the Skipped, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Well, I swow!" ejaculated the Cap'n, rubbing his knurly forefinger under his nose, and glancing first at the parrots and then at the lady. }}