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# nubbly

adjective (nubbly, nubblier, nubbliest)

«nubbly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Covered with small lumps or bumps; lumpy and knobbly to touch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#m1)

### In the lessons

A rare, playful word used by writers to describe texture, such as nubbly wool, nubbly tree bark or a nubbly animal skin; in the Just So Stories Kipling likes funny describing words like this. From «nub», a small lump. In science lessons on materials we describe textures: smooth, rough, bumpy, nubbly.

### Examples

- The old sweater was made of nubbly wool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#x1)
- The crocodile's back felt nubbly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#x2)
- Tree bark is rough and nubbly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#x3)
- The toad's skin was dry and nubbly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#x4)
- I like the nubbly cover of this notebook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#x5)
- The rocks on the beach were nubbly with barnacles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/#x6)

### Note

Rare and informal. Close words: knobbly, bumpy, lumpy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «nubbly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nubbly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«nubbly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/nubbly.html) on Mova free.