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What (who) is knotty - definition
knotty
SCOTTISH TEAM SPORT
¦ adjective (knottier, knottiest)
1. full of knots.
2. extremely difficult or intricate.
Derivatives
knottily adverb
knottiness noun
knotty
SCOTTISH TEAM SPORT
(knottier, knottiest)
1.
A knotty problem is complicated and difficult to solve.
The new management team faces some knotty problems.
= thorny
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
Knotty wood has a lot of small hard areas on it where branches once grew.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
knotty
SCOTTISH TEAM SPORT
a.
1.
Knotted, gnarled, full of knots, knaggy, knurly.
2.
Intricate, difficult, perplexing, embarrassing, hard, troublesome, involved.
Wikipedia
Knotty
The game of knotty is a Scottish team sport. It is a variation of the game of shinty as played in the fishing communities of Lybster, Caithness.
Examples of use of knotty
1. "They are going through some knotty discussions and I think those knotty discussions are going to continue for some time," Rice said late on Saturday.
2. "The questions have been extremely knotty and tied to principle.
3. "They‘re working on some knotty issues," Rice told reporters Saturday on her way to Israel.
4. He taught ways of energetically pushing ahead with this work and personally settled knotty problems.
5. Making the shekel convertible was technically enabled by resolving some knotty technological issues regarding clearing.