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Nubbly

adjective
1.
Of textiles; having a rough surface.  Synonyms: homespun, nubby, slubbed, tweedy.






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"Nubbly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Piccaninnies didn't have a rag to their backs except a huia feather which they wore in their hair. They were the jolliest, tubbiest, brownest babies you ever saw with tiny nubbly knobs on their shoulders, as if they had started to grow wings and then changed their minds about it, and little furry pointed ears, as all wild creatures have. Only these were not wild, ...
— Piccaninnies • Isabel Maud Peacocke



Words linked to "Nubbly" :   nubby, tweedy, rough, nubble, unsmooth



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