doorknobby

English

Etymology

From doorknob +‎ -y.

Adjective

doorknobby (comparative more doorknobby, superlative most doorknobby)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a doorknob.
    • 1996 April, Antonya Nelson, chapter 12, in Talking in Bed, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, part II, page 182:
      The skin on his upper arms was loose; his white doorknobby knees were decidedly unattractive.
    • 1996 October, Brian Hall, chapter 18, in The Saskiad, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 108:
      Jane leans into the front seat and punches in a little doorknobby thing on the dashboard.
    • 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:
      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.
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