Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The short, stiff stalks of grain or hay remaining on a field after harvesting.
- n. Something resembling this material, especially the short growth of hair that eventually protrudes from the skin after shaving.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The lower ends of grain-stalks, collectively, left standing in the ground when the crop is cut; the covering of a harvested field of grain.
- n. Something resembling or analogous to stubble, especially a short rough beard, or the short hair on a cropped head. See stubbly.
- n. Same as stubble-cane.
Wiktionary
- n. countable and uncountable short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
- n. countable and uncountable the short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- n. short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days
Etymologies
- Middle English stuble, from Latin stupula ("stalk, straw"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English stuble, from Old French estuble, from Latin stupula, stupla, variant of stipula, straw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If I have on the right (or, I guess, wrong) sort of underwear, the stubble is like Velcro and I have to rip my undies off every time I go to the bathroom.”
“I definitely think stubble is the way to go for him.”
“Price: 3,500,000 Euro ckolderup oh no, semantic polysemy! we've never had to deal with that before! csessums patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan cwaxler civil case Tiffany brought against eBay drothschild iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York jessamyn Personally, I'm after the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair.”
“OR amount of stubble is proportionate to job satisfaction. who wants to work somewhere that makes shave. you might as well say employablity is proportionate to cost of your tie/suit instead of saying casual attire/comfortablity of dress is proportionate to job satisfaction”
“[Page 49] poor souls were driven forth to gather in stubble for mixing with their clay; and yet how they were required to give in as large a tale of bricks at the end of each day's work as if the straw had been duly provided.”
“When the stubble is driven by the wind it will rest, at last, under some hedge, in some ditch or other; but he prays that they might not only be driven away as stubble, but burnt up as stubble.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Cary Grant with two week’s worth of stubble is a drunken bum.”
“The way you’d be covered in stubble and unwashed to the point where you can smell your own skin.”
“Burning the stubble is the easiest and cheapest way to clear the land and put potassium into the soil.”
“And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stubble’.
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• Little pains in my butt
Annoying, little, things. In a single word.
psoriasis, interjections, sultriness, spam, mice, mosquitoes, dust, mould, ipod, pimple, blister, sliver and 93 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...
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whiskers
words that describe facial hair,
some cute ones heremoustache, moustached, bewhiskered, bumfluff, burnsides, burnside, dundrearies, handlebar, imperial, kesh, beard, goatee and 82 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Pogonology
mustache, beard, soul patch, goatee, vandyke, barbule, sideburns, cookie duster, flavor saver, mutton chops, handlebar, fu manchu and 9 more...
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The Da Vinci Code
Reading the novel The Da Vinci Code and getting known with some unfamiliar words. That's it.
prelate, prelature, stagger, archway, lunged, gilded, mortification, heave, heap, canvas, anticipated, parquet and 69 more...
Tweets
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