▪ I. nubble, n.
(ˈnʌb(ə)l)
[dim. of nub n.1 Cf. knubble, knobble.]
A small knob or lump.
| 1818 J. Brown Psyche 171 Counting the nubbles and the dints That form the cornice. a 1845 Hood To Henrietta 23 That a corne is not the nubble that brings trouble to your toes. 1860 Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 42 A nubble of iron..dissolves in it like sugar does in water. 1897 Kipling Capt. Cour. 14 A piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles. |
▪ II. † ˈnubble
variant of knubble v.
| 1676 Verney Fam. Mem. (1899) VII. 223 S{supr} Fr. [Vincent]..beate him [Ld. Pembroke], threw him downe in ye kennell, nubbled him & dawb'd him daintily. 1725 N. Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 462, I..took him hold by the Hair with my left Hand, and nubbled him so well-favouredly with my Right, that you could see no Eyes he had for the Swellings. |