different between nubble vs nubbly

English

Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”).

nubble (plural nubbles)

A small knob or lump.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous, chapter 1
  Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.

nubble (third-person singular simple present nubbles, present participle nubbling, simple past and past participle nubbled)

(obsolete) To beat or bruise with the fist.
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nubble +? -y

nubbly (comparative nubblier, superlative nubbliest)

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