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stubble

[ stuhb-uhl ]

noun

  1. Usually stubbles. the stumps of grain and other stalks left in the ground when the crop is cut.
  2. such stumps collectively.
  3. any short, rough growth, as of beard.


stubble

/ ˈstʌbəl /

noun

    1. the stubs of stalks left in a field where a crop has been cut and harvested
    2. ( as modifier )

      a stubble field

  1. any bristly growth or surface
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈstubbly, adjective
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Other Words From

  • stubbled stubbly adjective
  • un·stubbled adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stubble1

1250–1300; Middle English stuble < Old French estuble < Vulgar Latin *stupula, Latin stipula stipule
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stubble1

C13: from Old French estuble, from Latin stupula, variant of stipula stalk, stem, stubble
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Example Sentences

The clippers can bring your beard into stubble territory with ease.

Most of the time, I’ll have a few days’ worth of beard stubble, which acts like Velcro when I’m trying to schmear on regular sunblock.

You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on his skin.

My captain on the boat, Brazakka, he wanted me to do this Hemingway bit, with the white stubble, and he wanted the hero angle.

After a few years of stubble, the lumberjack whiskers returned, now dyed black.

There was lots of heavy makeup,” Sheppard says, “to cover up the stubble.

He dips his brush into the green paint and giggles, saying that my stubble makes this harder.

He compliments us on our stubble, and we are pleased by this.

You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

And greenish among the stubble, upon a spear of blond barley, with a double row of seeds, I saw a prègo-diéu.

Left and right, each felling his man; and cimeters dashed from hands as stubble, shields were smitten through as if of gauze.

The fire was dying down a little, but one persistent flame moved like a snake in the dry stubble, and he savagely stamped it out.

They kept it up for about thirty rods and then Sheppy stumbled over a corn stubble and lost a few feet.

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