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nubies

nubies is the plural of nuby.

Meaning of nuby

Noun

nuby (plural nubies)

  1. An article of clothing similar to a scarf or a shawl.
    • She wore entwined about her head an article which Mrs. Dangerfield spoke of as a "nuby," a knitted pink scarf concealing her hair, encircling her neck and having among its convolutions a hole for her perfectly expressionless face.1 June 1804, Henry James, “Pandora”, in The New York Sun

Questions about nubies

What is nubies the plural of?
Nubies is the plural of nuby.

Words near nubies in the dictionary

  1. Nubian woodpeckers
  2. Nubianness
  3. Nubians
  4. nubias
  5. Nubieber
  6. nubies
  7. nubiferous
  8. nubiform
  9. nubigenous
  10. nubilate
  11. nubilated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nubies (page history and authors); nuby (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.

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