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stubbly

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stub·ble  (stbl)
n.
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.1.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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He was a very lean man, of no more than average height, with gray hair cut short and a stubbly gray moustache.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
He flung the doorway open, and stood half facing me between the yellow lamp-light and the pallid glare of the moon; his eye-sockets were blotches of black under his stubbly eyebrows.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
He was a commonish man in black with a band round his bowler hat; he had something of Fanny's clumsy look; he wore a stubbly moustache, and had a cockney accent.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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