stubble
IPA: stˈʌbʌɫ
noun
- (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
- (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
verb
- (agriculture) To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.
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Examples of "stubble" in Sentences
- Stubble along the hairline is visible.
- I was ecstatic when I stubbled upon it.
- The moustache was much thicker than the stubble.
- It's a characteristic species of stubble fields.
- During the 1980s stubble on men became fashionable.
- I definitely think stubble is the way to go for him.
- Cary Grant with two week’s worth of stubble is a drunken bum.
- Originally, it was a vast cornfield, full of reeds and stubble.
- The way you’d be covered in stubble and unwashed to the point where you can smell your own skin.
- If I have on the right (or, I guess, wrong) sort of underwear, the stubble is like Velcro and I have to rip my undies off every time I go to the bathroom.
- When the stubble is driven by the wind it will rest, at last, under some hedge, in some ditch or other; but he prays that they might not only be driven away as stubble, but burnt up as stubble.
- [Page 49] poor souls were driven forth to gather in stubble for mixing with their clay; and yet how they were required to give in as large a tale of bricks at the end of each day's work as if the straw had been duly provided.
- OR amount of stubble is proportionate to job satisfaction. who wants to work somewhere that makes shave. you might as well say employablity is proportionate to cost of your tie/suit instead of saying casual attire/comfortablity of dress is proportionate to job satisfaction
- Price: 3,500,000 Euro ckolderup oh no, semantic polysemy! we've never had to deal with that before! csessums patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan cwaxler civil case Tiffany brought against eBay drothschild iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York jessamyn Personally, I'm after the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair.
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