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stub·ble (st

1. The short, stiff stalks of grain or hay remaining on a field after harvesting.

2. Something resembling this material, especially the short growth of hair that eventually protrudes from the skin after shaving.

[Middle English stuble, from Old French estuble, from Latin stupula, stupla, variant of stipula, straw.]

stubbled adj.

stubbly adj.

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Adj.

stubbly - having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin"

bestubbled, stubbled

unshaved, unshaven - not shaved

Translations

stubbly [ˈstʌblɪ] ADJ [chin] → sin afeitar; [beard] → de tres días; [person] → con barba de tres días

stubbly [ˈstʌbli] adj
to have a stubbly chin → être mal rasé

stubbly

adj (+er) → Stoppel-; face → stoppelig; stubbly beard → Stoppelbart m; stubbly field → Stoppelfeld nt

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