LekhoriLekhoriOf string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
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Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
a knotty pine
Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
From Middle English knotti, knotty (“having a knot in it; full of knots; tied together (?); resembling a knot, knotlike; having knobs or protuberances; bulging, convex; of a tree, branch, etc.: full o...
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a knotty problem