knotted
adjUK /ˈnɒtɪd/ · US /ˈnɑtɪd/
Etymology From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.
1
Full of knots; knotty.
- These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
2
Tied in knots.
3
Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
4
Having the shape or form of a knot.
- Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
- Derived terms
- beknotted, butterfly-knotted, get knotted, knottedness, knotted pile, knotted wrack, pseudoknotted