nubby
/nʌbi/
nubby adjective: knobbly; covered with small knobs.
Adjective
nubby (comparative nubbier, superlative nubbiest)
- Knobbly; covered with small knobs.
- noil A type of silk, sometimes incorrectly called raw silk, with a nubby feel and a low sheen.2007, Marie Clayton, The Ultimate A to Z Companion to 1,001 Needlecraft Terms
- Nub-like, resembling a small bump or protrusion; stubby.
- Xavier (Unknown Fan #1): Excuse me, miss. I seem to have lost my way. Could you point me in the right direction?
Stranger (Unknown Fan #2): Well, shoot, stranger. My pointin' days are long gone, what with these prosthetic limbs and all.
Xavier: What the hell? Who transformed your form, messed with...2009 April 9, Xavier Renegade Angel, season 2, episode 9 - Now we are sitting in a circle and each is given a stenographer's pad, the kind with the spring spine, and a nubby pencil, a pencil of quarter size so it can't be used as a weapon [...]2010, John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri, page 170
- Xavier (Unknown Fan #1): Excuse me, miss. I seem to have lost my way. Could you point me in the right direction?
Forms of nubby
| comparative | nubbier |
|---|---|
| superlative | nubbiest |
Origin of nubby
From nub + -y. Compare knobby.
Words formed from nubby
Questions about nubby
- What does nubby mean?
- Nubby means knobbly; covered with small knobs.
- What part of speech is nubby?
- Nubby is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce nubby?
- Nubby is pronounced /nʌbi/ (UK).
Words near nubby in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nubby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nubby.wav.
Cite this entry: “nubby.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nubby. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.