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nubble

English

Etymology

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

Noun

nubble (plural nubbles)

  1. 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.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To beat or bruise with the fist.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • Lubben

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nybble

English

Alternative forms

  • nibble

Etymology

Punningly from nibble (“a small bite”), with the i changed to y by analogy with byte, as if that word had been formed in the same way from bite.

Noun

nybble (plural nybbles)

  1. (computing) Half of a byte, i.e. four bits

Synonyms

  • hex digit

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