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nubble
English
Etymology
Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”).
Noun
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.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous, chapter 1
Verb
nubble (third-person singular simple present nubbles, present participle nubbling, simple past and past participle nubbled)
- (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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rubble
English
Etymology
From Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (bits of stone). Ultimately presumably from Proto-Germanic *raub- (“to break”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???b.?l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
rubble (countable and uncountable, plural rubbles)
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 72]:
- The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 72]:
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- 1855, Sir Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology
- The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified
- 1855, Sir Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology
- (Britain, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
Derived terms
- reduce to rubble
- rubblestone
- rubblework
Related terms
- rubbish
Translations
References
Anagrams
- beblur, burble, lubber, rebulb
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