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nubile
English
Etymology
From French nubile, from Latin n?bilis (“marriageable”), from n?b? (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewb?- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (númph?, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?nuba?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?nju?ba?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
nubile (comparative more nubile, superlative most nubile)
- Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman). [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: eligible, marriageable, wifeable
- Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
- Synonyms: foxy; see also Thesaurus:sexy
Usage notes
For a man, especially a young man, eligible is sometimes used as the corresponding term in the sense ‘marriageable’, particularly in the phrase eligible bachelor.
Derived terms
- nubility
Related terms
- connubial
- nuptial, nuptials
Translations
Noun
nubile (plural nubiles)
- A young sexually attractive woman.
Anagrams
- beluin, unible
French
Etymology
From Latin n?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ny.bil/
Adjective
nubile (plural nubiles)
- nubile
Further reading
- “nubile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From Latin n?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nu.bi.le/
Adjective
nubile (plural nubili)
- unmarried
Noun
nubile f (plural nubili)
- unmarried woman
- spinster
Related terms
- nubilato
See also
- celibe
Latin
Adjective
n?bile
- vocative masculine singular of n?bilus
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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.
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Anagrams
- Lubben
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