Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon. · A small knob or lump. · The essence or core of an issue, argument etc. · The clitoris.
To hit the ball weakly. · To push; to nudge. · To beckon. · To extemporize a passage of Shakespearean blank verse
Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.
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- Cognate mentionKnubbelnds
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