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STUBBLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stubbly mean?
• STUBBLY (adjective)
The adjective STUBBLY has 1 sense:
1. having a short growth of beard
Familiarity information: STUBBLY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: stubbliest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a short growth of beard
Synonyms:
bestubbled; stubbled; stubbly
Context example:
his stubbled chin
Similar:
Context examples
Into this shop, which was low and small, and which was darkened rather than lighted by a little window, overhung with clothes, and was descended into by some steps, I went with a palpitating heart; which was not relieved when an ugly old man, with the lower part of his face all covered with a stubbly grey beard, rushed out of a dirty den behind it, and seized me by the hair of my head.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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