different between pubble vs nubble

English

Perhaps from bubble.

pubble (comparative more pubble, superlative most pubble)

(Northern England or obsolete) puffed out; pudgy; fat
- 1567, Thomas Drant, Horace his arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs, Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte
  Thou shalt me fynde fat and wel fed,
  As pubble as may be.

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.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

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