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Definition: Stubbly |
StubblyAdjective1. Having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stubbly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Synonyms: StubblySynonyms: bestubbled (adj), stubbled (adj). (additional references) |
| "Stubbly" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Stubbly" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stubbly": stubbly beard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stubbly": stubbly-legged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stubbly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mbuluar me kashtë, drizë (bramble, brier, shaggy, shock, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكسو بالخذامة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | щръкнал (projecting, projective), набол, покрит със стърнища. (various references) | |
French | couvert de chaume. (various references) | |
German | stoppelig (bristly, scrubby). (various references) | |
Greek | κοντοκομένοσ, σκληρόσ (bloody minded, callous, cold-hearted, cruel, crusty, flinty, hard, scirrhous, steely, stiff, stony, stubbed, tough, truculent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | letarolt (bald, denunded, peeled). (various references) | |
Manx | garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), coonlee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubblystay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hirsuto (beetle, bristly, hairy, hirsute, shaggy, stubby, wiry), eriçado (bristly, rough, standing on end, untidy), coberto de restolho. (various references) | |
Russian | торчащий (protrusive, sticking), короткий (brief, little, short, small), покрытый стерней. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | strnjikav. (various references) | |
Spanish | lleno de rastrojo, erizado; cerdoso, con barba de tres días, cerdoso (bristly, setaceous). (various references) | |
Swedish | stubbig (stubby). (various references) | |
Turkish | tıraşı gelmiş (scrubby, stubby), fırça gibi (bushy, scrubby, stubby, wiry), anızlı (stubby). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щетинистий (bristly), післяжнивний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có nhiều gốc rạ có râu lởm chởm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Stubbly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stubly, subly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stubbly" (pronounced 'Stub"bly'): ASSEMBLY, Brambly, Bubbly, Crumbly, humbly, ignobly, Marbly, Nimbly, Nobly, Pebbly, Rubbly, stably, Unnobly, Wabbly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-l-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: butyls, stubby, subtly. | |
-2 letters: blubs, bulbs, busby, busty, butyl, lusty, tubby. | |
-3 letters: blub, bubs, bulb, bust, busy, buts, buys, lust, slub, stub, tubs. | |
-4 letters: bub, bus, but, buy, bys, sly, sty, sub, tub, uts. | |
-5 letters: by, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-l-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: stubbily. | |
+3 letters: stubbornly. | |
+4 letters: combustibly. | |
+5 letters: bellybuttons, brushability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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