Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A nub. The name nubble is applied to a rocky promontory on the coast of Maine, at York.
- To beat or bruise with the fist.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To beat or bruise with the fist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small lump or protuberance
Etymologies
- Compare Low German nubben to knock, cuff. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For example, I bought the DVD of "Chariots of Fire" as my VHS was worn to a nubble.”
“That tallest blue pine, that nubble of grasses in the upland meadow, that outcrop of granite.”
“She breathed on a penny, placed it on the nubble, before wrapping the napkin round.”
“A round nubble about 14 mile in diameter, of sharp, rocky bottom having about 40 fathoms over it.”
“And noo I am thinking ye'll een let the puir mon in the dock just gae free; and pit my laird, his greece, the nubble duk ', intil the prisoner's place.”
““See that,” she said, and of course he did, for he was gawping and blinking at it, the nubble out of the babba’s belly.”
“a while, and ketch me a mess o 'brook-trout, but as for tinkerin' over the roads -- why, that artis 'that was down here three months las' summer, paintin 'a couple o' Leezur's sheep eatin 'rock-weed off'n a nubble, said 't our roads was picturusque.”
“That little nubble almost west, sticking up so black against the sunset's Seal Island.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nubble’.
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October 2011
serendipity, grateful, irritable, punchy, twitchy, reverence, solitude, levity, nubble, sojourn, Eden, quesadilla and 19 more...
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-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Henderson the Rain King
Words taken from Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
yellowback, unkillable, swack, hoarfrost, decapotable, brownian, mackinaw, taxwise, oratorio, picaresque, masonite, catalpa and 109 more...
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crystalsenterbrown's list
crepuscular, perspicacious, prestidigitation, prestidigitation, maudlin, pithy, agitprop, philistine, harridan, bon vivant, sub rosa, edacious and 35 more...
Tweets
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yarb The steel door to the engine room blew its bolts and out of the issuing smoke coalesced Black Master Chief Harold, radiant black with sweat like fresh-chiseled coal, his chin streaked and gooed from fuel-tasting, his asbestos jacket smoldering. Behind him were his fire lackey and his boiler monkey, hints of fume from their nostrils, them not much larger than myself, their bent helmets hardly protecting their hair in the places where it was singed to broiled nubbles. They looked shot from cannons.
- Mark Richard, Fishboy, pp. 67-68 Jun 11, 2008