Knucklesome

He was wearing his high school ring, a Florida ring, an ugly garnet stone with a turd shape engraved on it—a manatee, the high school mascot— which caused Kiwi to look down at his own naked, knucklesome fingers in alarm.

It was in my early non-league days at Hayes, Wycombe Wanderers and Hendon where I learned my more knucklesome trade.