nubble
/ˈnʌb(ə)l
/noun
A small knob or lump.She had on a kind of dirty-pink - beige maybe, I don't know - bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down....
- There is an interesting indigenous remedy in North China for ‘zhen zhu liu’ (a string of nubbles growing one by one around someone's waist, transparent as pearls).
Derivatives
nubbled
- They feature nubbled comfort footbed, shock absorbing midsole, and traction outsole.
Origin
Early 19th century: diminutive of nub; compare with knobble.
Rhymes
- batten down the hatches
- battening
- Batten, Jean
- batter
- battered
- battered child syndrome
- battered sav
- battered woman syndrome
- batterer
- batterie
- batterie de cuisine
- battering parent syndrome
- battering ram
- battery
- battery acid
- battery charger
- battery-operated
- battery pack
- battery-powered
- Batticaloa
- battily
- battiness
- batting
- batting average
- batting cage