Nubbly

Quick meaning: Nubbly is an adjective meaning Rough or lumpy.

Meaning

Rough or lumpy.

Example Sentences

When that crust is nubbly and evenly browned, and the chicken meat is cooked through, the chicken is sublime.

Though Clifford paid preliminary homage to them both, she was the one he finally made love to, rather quickly on the nubbly hooked rug.

She was a little woman, in a bonnet and a black costume. Her bonnet was in its third year; it was a great grievance to Annie. “Mother!” the girl implored, “don’t wear that nubbly little bonnet.”

My description thus far makes this sound like a clash-of-civilizations novel, or a techno nail-biter, something out of Neal Stephenson or Stephen King, but it doesn’t read that way: It’s more nubbly.

Word Forms

• nubblier
• nubbliest

Synonyms for nubbly

Depending on context, synonyms include rough, homespun, unsmooth, nubby, slubbed, tweedy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nubby, tweedy, homespun, rough, unsmooth, slubbed.

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