knobbing

Updated: May 28, 2025

Tramp, tramp, tramping along the road, in singles, couples, groups, and gangs, you have the working-man and the working-woman but not clothed like ours. Usually the man is a nobly-built great athlete, with not a rag on but his loin-handkerchief; his color a deep dark brown, his skin satin, his rounded muscles knobbing it as if it had eggs under it.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator