stubble
noun
Origin of stubble
Related Words for stubble
imperial, fuzz, brush, goatee, Vandyke, fiber, point, spine, thorn, barb, feeler, whisker, prickle, vibrissa, quill, burnsides, mustache, beard, muttonchops, whiskersExamples from the Web for stubble
Contemporary Examples of stubble
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.
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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.
First, 60-year-old white men should never dance alone at a public gathering—he was about as smooth as five-day stubble.
Historical Examples of stubble
The vast host shall be to us, he cried, as "stubble is to fire."
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
All up the Valley the drums' rattle drowned the drone of the locusts in the stubble.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
One position held by Austrians for hours was in a stubble field.
Shrieking, I hurled free of him, and rolled over the tail-board on to the stubble.
The Golden AgeKenneth Grahame
And he had been as stubble before the wind—as chaff that the storm carrieth away!
The ChristianHall Caine