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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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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)

  1. 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.
  2. (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
  3. (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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