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pebbly

pebbly adjective: of or containing pebbles.

Adjective

pebbly (comparative pebblier, superlative pebbliest)

  1. Of or containing pebbles.
    • "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC
    • The balance of that day we spent in continuing a minute and fruitless exploration of the monotonous coast. There was not another break in the frowning cliffs--not even another minute patch of pebbly beach.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...
  2. With a surface like that of pebbles.
    • Mr Rottcodd turned his pebbly eyes away.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC

pebbly meaning in Tamil

pebbly in Tamil

கூழாங்கல் நிறைந்த

Forms of pebbly

comparativepebblier
superlativepebbliest

Origin of pebbly

From pebble + -y.

Questions about pebbly

What does pebbly mean?
Pebbly means of or containing pebbles.
What is pebbly in Tamil?
Pebbly in Tamil is கூழாங்கல் நிறைந்த. See Pebbly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pebbly?
Pebbly is an adjective.

Words near pebbly in the dictionary

  1. PebbleYeet
  2. pebblier
  3. pebbliest
  4. pebbling
  5. pebblings
  6. pebbly
  7. PEBCAC
  8. PEBCAK
  9. PEBCAKs
  10. Pebet
  11. pebi-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pebbly (page history and authors); pebbly (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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