knotted

From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒtɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑtɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒtɪd

knotted (comparative more knotted, superlative most knotted)

1. Full of knots; knotty.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:

     These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.

2. Tied in knots.
3. Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
4. Having the shape or form of a knot.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:

     Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.

knotted

1. simple past and past participle of knot

   He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.

   Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.

• knottid, knottyd, iknotted, icnottet, cnottede, cnotted, icnotten

The past participle of a rare verb knotten.

• IPA^(key): /ˈknɔtəd/, /iˈknɔtəd/, /əˈknɔtəd/

knotted

1. knotted, knotty, tangled
2. tied, linked
3. lumpy, bumpy

• English: knotted
• Scots: knottit

• “knotten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 April 2018.