stubblen.
/ˈstʌb(ə)l/ 1. Each of the stumps or lower ends of grain-stalks left in the ground after reaping. Now only in plural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stubble
arrishOE
stub1250
stubble1297
pease stubble?1523
pease-etch1573
gratten1577
stumps1585
brush1686
etch1727
pea stubble1743
pease-eddish1789
stubble1792
shacklea1800
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4578 He smot of is heued as liȝtliche as it were a scouple [v.rr. a stouple, a lute stouple].
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. vi. 393 Pestylence wastyth and dystroyeth stobles.
1569 G. B. in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 388 In euerie place are stubbles and prickes, That stayes the feeble feete.
1577 Extracts Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) 63 That nane pull stibillis furtht of ony landis about the toun.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 319 Its Work is to plough up Stubbles, particularly in wet Weather.
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 58 The gay Pack In the rough bristly Stubbles range unblam'd.
1836 R. W. Emerson Nature iii, in Wks. (1906) II. 146 Every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost.
1884 H. Seebohm Hist. Brit. Birds II. 455 At this season the Partridge delights to ‘jug’ in the grass-fields, repairing to the turnips and the stubbles to feed.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 817 The crops of warts which attack the gums and palates of sheep feeding upon stubbles.
2. collective singular.
a. The stumps or lower parts of the stalks of wheat or other grain left in the ground by the sickle or reaping-machine.
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xlix. 4 Þan may þe cafe drede, and stubil.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clvii. 1054 Stoble hatte stipula... And stipula is propreliche þat strawe wiþ leues and hosen þat is ylefte in þe feelde after þat rypmen haue yrepen þe corn wiþ hokes and ygadered it home.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xli. 23 And othere seuene..camen forth of the stobil.
1425 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 108 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 If any man tye his horse in any stubbull.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvv In some places they wyll shere their cornes high to thentent to mowe theyr stubble, other to thacke or to brenne.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xiv. 304 But I suppose, that you..Know by the stubble, what the Corne hath bene.
1727 J. Swift Progr. Poetry in Misc. Last vol. 243 The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble, Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. v. 151 The stubble, or the roots, which the plough pushes before it, are sometimes intangled betwixt the coulter and sheath.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 376 The sight of those fields of stubble and turnips, now his own, gave him many secret joys.
1887 Spectator 13 Aug. 1075 Carefully destroying the stubble of infested wheat and barley.
b. In various figurative or allusive contexts.Often with allusion to 1 Corinthians iii. 12.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless
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turdc1275
fille1297
dusta1300
lead1303
skitc1330
naught1340
vanityc1340
wrakea1350
rushc1350
dirt1357
fly's wing1377
goose-wing1377
fartc1390
chaff?a1400
nutshella1400
shalec1400
yardc1400
wrack1472
pelfrya1529
trasha1529
dreg1531
trish-trash1542
alchemy1547
beggary?1548
rubbish1548
pelfa1555
chip1556
stark naught1562
paltry?1566
rubbish1566
riff-raff1570
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baggage1579
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trush-trash1582
stubblea1591
tartar1590
garbage1592
bag of winda1599
a cracked or slit groat1600
kitchen stuff1600
tilta1603
nothing?1608
bauble1609
countera1616
a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620
buttermilk1630
dross1632
paltrement1641
cattle1643
bagatelle1647
nothingness1652
brimborion1653
stuff1670
flap-dragon1700
mud1706
caput mortuuma1711
snuff1778
twaddle1786
powder-post1790
traffic1828
junk1836
duffer1852
shice1859
punk1869
hogwash1870
cagmag1875
shit1890
tosh1892
tripe1895
dreck1905
schlock1906
cannon fodder1917
shite1928
skunk1929
crut1937
chickenshit1938
crud1943
Mickey Mouse1958
gick1959
garbo1978
turd1978
pants1994
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > a combustible substance > [noun] > specific
brimstonea1300
salamander stone1583
stubblea1591
a1591 H. Smith 2nd Serm. Song Simeon (1602) D 5 But sinners are stubble, and their sentence is, Burne them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 255 This..suggested..will be his fire To kindle their dry Stubble . View more context for this quotation
1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. vii. 110 The stubble and errors of the Doctors.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vii. 128 This argument..is wittily spunne out by..Sr Humfry Gilbert, whose ability seemes to haue made a haruest out of the stubble.
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 254 No merit now the dear Nonjuror claims, Moliere's old stubble in a moment flames.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. i. 5 Depend upon it, Mr. Belford..that one day you will be convinced, that what you call friendship, is chaff and stubble.
1773 E. Burke Speech on Toleration Bill in Writings & Speeches (1981) II. 382 The Church of England if only defended by this miserable petition upon your table, I am afraid her walls, bulwarks, and bastions [are] constructed of stuble and straw.
1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter I. 156 The very stubble of our old sins may run into our eyes and blind us.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 185 So ran the tale like fire about the court, Fire in dry stubble a nine-days' wonder flared.
c. transferred. A rough surface or short growth likened to the ‘stubble’ of grain, esp. the short bristly growth on a man's unshaven face.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun]
bristlea1300
subboscos1579
suberch1592
stubblea1596
whiskerc1600
facial hair1830
face fungus1904
zit1912
five o'clock shadow1937
shrubbery1937
a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) iv. iii. 56 Thou was wunt to blame My kissing when my beard was in the stubble.
a1660 Prince d'Amour etc. 128 The grim stubble eke On the Judges cheek.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iii. 85 His mouth and chin, [were] bristly with the stubble of a coarse hard beard.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) viii. ii. 291 On his chin, a black stubble of two days growth.
d. In sugar-planting, the sugar cane in the field after the first year.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane > stubble
stubble1846
1846 Commerc. Rev. South & West Oct. 324 Fortunately the [sugar] cane is not an annual plant. Each year fresh shoots spring from the stubble which remains after cutting the crop.
3. The straw of grain-stalks, etc. gathered after the crop has been harvested.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of
stubble1382
rye straw?1523
kex1550
helm1669
broom-straw1785
Leghorn1817
Tuscan grass1830
buntal1910
baku1927
sisal1928
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. ii. 6 She made the men to stye vp into the soler of hir hows, and couerde hem with stuble of flaxe, that was there.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 56/2 In no wyse gyue no more chaf to the peple for to make lome and claye but late them goo and gadre stopple.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xiv. f. 25v Beinge bounden to a stake, with smoke made of grene styckes and wete stubbell, to be smouldred to deathe.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxiii. 38 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 121 Torment them, lord, as tossed balls; As stuble scatt'red in the aire.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 133 Where they have lesse store of wood within land there they burne straw, furres, and other kinds of stubble.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 181 One night, as I lay on my bed of stubble.
1786 R. Burns To Mouse vi, in Poems 140 That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. i. 200 The walls..are formed of a mixture of stubble and clay.
4. A field that has been reaped, and not yet ploughed again; a stubble-field. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stubble
arrishOE
stub1250
stubble1297
pease stubble?1523
pease-etch1573
gratten1577
stumps1585
brush1686
etch1727
pea stubble1743
pease-eddish1789
stubble1792
shacklea1800
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > harvest-field > stubble field
arrishOE
eddisha1728
stubble-rig?1780
stubble1792
shack-land1821
1792 A. Young Trav. France 435 Sheep..are in most of the provinces fed upon straw, and what they can pick up on wastes and stubbles.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany iv. 41 The valleys..were of the deepest and richest green, which contrasted deliciously with the yellow stubbles and cornfields.
1908 Outlook 29 Aug. 279/1 The costly moors in the Highlands..must always be the privileged possession of the few, but the stubbles in September are available to the multitude.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Esp. attributive with the senses ‘consisting of or covered with stubble’.
a. † stubble way n. Obsolete
stubble-beard n.
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1714 E. Ward Field-spy 26 With Stubble-Beard, about a Fortnight's growth.
stubble-bearded adj.
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1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 36 A stubble-bearded-Barister.
stubble-field n.
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1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry ii. xvi. 124 After they [the geese] haue in the stubble fields, and during the time of haruest got into good flesh.
1786 R. Burns Poems 171 But thou..Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus i. 3 Which look through, near, this way, and it appears A stubble-field, or a crane-brake.
stubble ground n.
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1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 176 No plough will choke in stubble ground, if the crop is cut in a proper manner.
stubble-land n.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 34 Like a stubble land at haruest home. View more context for this quotation
stubble plain n.
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1815 W. Scott Field of Waterloo 14 The bare extent of stubble-plain Seems lately lighten'd of its grain.
stubble roof n.
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1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 77 A lowly Cottage..Fenc'd by a Stubble-roof, from Rain and Heat.
stubble-time n.
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1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Bviv They walk not directlye & playnlye, but delyght in balkes & stubbil way.
b. ‘Grown on the stubble’.
stubble-clover n.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 329 Fatting-sheep may be suffered to feed freely on the stubble-clover.
stubble-crop n.
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1881 Chicago Times 11 June The sugar districts in this state [i.e. Louisiana] report to the Planters' association..: Stubble crop good.
stubble-turnip n.
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1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXII. at Sheep By..the use of stubble turnips when necessary, the ewe and lamb-stock may be well supported through the severity of the season.
c. ‘Used on the stubble’.† stubble scythe n. Obsolete
stubble-plough n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stubble-plow.
stubble-rake n.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 801 The stubble..being..raked together by means of a large horse stubble-rake.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11v Husbandry necessaries..whereof the smaller sort be these,..Stubble Sithes.
d. Objective.
(a)
stubble-burner n.
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1980 Sunday Times 24 Aug. 1/7 Can stubble-burners be controlled?
stubble-burning n.
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1973 Times 24 Aug. 2/5 The National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers yesterday called for regulations to control stubble burning.
1976 A. Price War Game i. ii. 48 There hadn't been so much stubble-burning this year, he noted approvingly.
stubble-turniping n.
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1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxviii. 164 The system of stubble-turniping after wheat has proved very successful.
(b)
stubble-loving adj.
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1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) iv. sig. H3v Who did of hollow bulrushes combine Snares for the stubble-louing Grashopper.
e. Instrumental.
stubble-covered adj.
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1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 70 Intuition..had made him glance with mistrust at his trainer's flabby stubblecovered face.
C2. Also stubble-goose n.
stubble-butter n. Scottish butter made of the milk of cows fed on the stubble.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter
May-butter?a1425
clarified butter1562
pot-butter1616
manteca1622
grass butter1648
green butter1654
drawn butter1661
cacao butter1662
ghee1665
rowen1673
ruskin1679
orange butter1696
whey-buttera1722
rowen butter1725
fairy butter1747
grease1788
Cambridge butter1830
stubble-butter1856
black jack1858
maître d'hôtel butter1861
Normandy butter1868
creamery butter1881
pound butter1888
renovated butter1888
samn1888
process butter1898
pool butter1940
garlic butter1942
yak butter1962
Normandy1973
cannabutter1994
1856 J. Ballantine Poems 167 The best stibble butter taks langest o' churnin'.
1888 Glasgow Evening Times 15 Oct. 2/5 (advt.) Stubble butter.
stubble-fed adj. of poultry: fed on the stubble left in a reaped field.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [adjective] > of eating habits of poultry
stubble-fed1882
open range1958
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 224 Cricket-fed turkey would shame any stubble-fed bird altogether.
1928 Daily Express 6 Oct. 4/6 These stubble-fed geese are the best of all for eating.
stubble-feeding n.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding poultry
stubble-feeding1960
1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xii. 172 There were two kinds of shacking; Lammas shack..and Michaelmas shack, stubble-feeding after the corn harvest.
stubble-fire n. fire made of stubble and so lasting but a moment.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > other fires
moorburn1424
coal firea1450
commonty fire1573
moor-burning1610
stubble-firea1618
wheel-fire1662
night-fire1687
waterball1696
chip fire1795
neal-fire1813
bratchel1815
forge-fire1855
log-fire1878
electrical fire1900
slash fire1949
dumpster fire1957
chip pan fire1960
chip fire1985
a1618 J. Sylvester Cup Consol. 34 Whose brittle glosse and glory lasts and shines As Stubble-Fire, and Dust before the Windes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 In vain he burns, like fainty Stubble Fires . View more context for this quotation
stubble-grown adj. = stubble-covered adj. at Compounds 1e above.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > unshaven
unshaven1382
unrazored1637
unshaved1648
setaceous1787
unshaveable1809
stubbly1854
stubbled1913
stubble-grown1916
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 267 Good evening, gentlemen—said the stubble grown monkeyish face.
stubble-jumper n. slang (chiefly Canadian) a prairie farmer (see also quot. 1946).
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > mountain or prairie farmer
ridge runner1904
stubble-jumper1946
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > new or inexperienced
cheechako1897
stubble-jumper1946
1946 California Folklore Q. Apr. 164 ‘Top hands’, ‘sodbusters’, ‘hay stopers’, ‘stubble jumpers’,..denote farmers who have turned to mining, and these terms are always opprobrious.
1961 Vancouver Sun 4 July 1/1 The prairie farmer, to those of us who don't know him well, is a stock comic character. Clod-hopper, we call him, and stubble-jumper.
1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 Aug. 12/1 An authentic stubble-jumper from the prairies was looked upon as being at the very bottom rung of the social and employment ladder.
stubble-quail n. a brown, black, and white quail, Coturnix pectoralis, native to southern Australia.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Coturnix (quail)
eddish-henc825
arrish-henOE
curlewa1340
quail1381
mountain partridge1728
mountain quail1846
stubble-quail1848
koreke1871
Mearns quail1903
1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. Pl. 88 The name of Stubble Quail has been given to it by the colonists of Van Diemen's Land, from the great numbers that visit the fields after the harvest is over.
1886 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XX. 147/1 The commoner one [sc. species of quail], which in Australia and Tasmania is wholly replaced by C[oturnix] pectoralis, the Stubble-Quail of the colonists.
1921 Matthews & Iredale Man. Birds Austral. I. 224 Stubble-quail... Head, neck, entire back and scapulars rufous-brown and black streaked with white.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 316/1 The stubble-quail, which is closely allied to the quail of Europe, is confined to southern Australia and Tasmania.
stubble-rig n. Scottish (a) a stubble-field; (b) the reaper who takes the lead.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > harvest-field > stubble field
arrishOE
eddisha1728
stubble-rig?1780
stubble1792
shack-land1821
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower > leading reapers
lord of the harvest1534
harvest-lord1573
lord1743
stubble-rig?1780
harvest-ladya1825
harvest queena1825
?1780 in Burns's Wks. (Globe) 164/2 The stibble rig is easy plough'd, The fallow land is free.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 158 Our Stibble-rig was Rab M‘Graen.
stubble-time n. the time just after harvest.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > time after harvest
stubble-time1486
1486 Bk. St. Albans d ij Ther be in a stobull tyme Sordes of mailardes in the felde.
stubble-turner n. (see quot. 1875).
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > other ploughing equipment
trainc1450
rod bat1842
sidewiper1842
porter1864
stubble-turner1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stubble-turner, an attachment to a plow to turn over stubble and trash before the principal plow reaches it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† stubbleadj.
Obsolete.
(a) ? Clumsy, awkward. (b) ? Stoutly-built.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective]
stalworthc1175
thicka1250
stubblea1300
quarryc1300
stalworthyc1300
stoura1350
sturdyc1386
buirdlya1400
squarec1430
couragec1440
craskc1440
substantialc1460
ample1485
stalwart1508
puddinga1540
full-bodied1588
robust1666
two-handed1687
swankinga1704
strapping1707
broad-set1708
thick-set1724
throddy?1748
thick-bodied1752
broad-built1771
junky1825
swankie1838
stodgy1854
wide-bodied1854
beefish1882
hunky1911
buff1982
buffed1986
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
a1300 Cursor Mundi 23910 For-sak þou noght his stubul werc, For þof it rude and stubel be, It es in worscip wroght o þe.
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory Pref. ⁋iv The third sort..are..very stubble curres, & be neither doers, sufferers, or wel speakers of honours tokens.
1570 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Morall Fabillis (Charteris) sig. B.ii In stubbill array [?a1500 In skugry ay] throw gers and corne And vnder buskis preuilie couth thay creip.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 522 It is lyke..That sic ane stubill husband man wald stryke stoutly.
Compounds
stubble boy n. cf. stubbed boy n. at stubbed adj. 2b.
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the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun]
frumberdlingc1000
young manOE
childc1225
hind1297
pagec1300
youtha1325
fawnc1369
swainc1386
stripling1398
boy1440
springaldc1450
jovencel1490
younkera1522
speara1529
gorrel1530
lad1535
hobbledehoy1540
cockerel1547
waga1556
spring1559
loonc1560
hensure1568
youngster1577
imp1578
pigsney1581
cocklinga1586
demy1589
muchacho1591
shaver1592
snipper-snappera1593
callant1597
spaught1598
stubble boy1598
ghillie1603
codling1612
cuba1616
skippera1616
man-boy1637
sprig1646
callow1651
halflang1660
stubbed boy1683
gossoon1684
gilpie1718
stirraha1722
young lion1792
halfling1794
pubescent1795
young man1810
sixteener1824
señorito1843
tad1845
boysie1846
shaveling1854
ephebe1880
boychick1921
lightie1946
young blood1967
studmuffin1986
the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria iv. v, in Terence in Eng. 86 Grandiusculus huic profectus est. He was a good stubble boy: a pretie bauckt ladde and of a good stature when he went from hence.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 138 Wee give usually xx s. to a good stubble boy for drivinge of the oxe plough.
Derivatives
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > sturdiness
stourness1530
stubbleness1530
sturdiness1863
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/2 Stubblenesse or sturdynesse, lourdesse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
stubblev.
/ˈstʌb(ə)l/ 1.
a. transitive. To clear (land) of stubble. Also to remove stubble from (one's face).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > clear of stubble
stubblea1492
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > shave
shearc897
shave?c1225
strikec1275
razec1460
mow1647
scrapea1774
razora1783
tonsure1793
stubble1836
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclviv/1 How shall it be to me possyble to stubble & make clene this pyece of londe here?
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 128 He began stubbling his chin, as before.
b. To trample down into stubble.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > downwards > trample > specific crops or grass
triflea1642
slash1689
stubble1897
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 243 The grass is stubbled down into paths by hippos.
c. With in. (See quot. 1825). U.S.
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1825 J. Lorain Nature & Reason Harmonized in Pract. Husb. 129 The worst system of cultivation in common practice seems to be stubbling in; or annually putting in crops of small grain on stubble grounds.
2. Cant. stubble it!, stubble your whids! hold your tongue!
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
blina1300
dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Stubble-it.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xviii. 293 Stubble it, you ben.
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford II. iv. 113 Stubble your whids, You wants to trick I!
Derivatives
ˈstubbling n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > clearing of stubble
unstubbling1778
stubbling1872
1872 Daily News 25 Sept. There is gleaning and stubbling, and then the two harvests of hay and corn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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n.1297
adj.a1300v.a1492- stone-silent
- stone-slate
- stone-smatch
- stone-smitch
- stone-snipe
- stone-sponge
- stone-square
- stone-squarer
- stone-still
- stone-strewn
- stone-sucker
- stone-thrower
- stone-throwing
- stone-thrush
- stone-tivet
- stone-toter
- stone-turf
- stone-turnip
- stone-user
- stone-using
- stone-vaulted
- stone-volley
- stone-walled
- stone-weed
- stone-weight