| 释义 |
▪ I. nubble, n.|ˈnʌb(ə)l|
[dim. of nub n.1 Cf. knubble, knobble.]
A small knob or lump.
1818J. Brown Psyche 171 Counting the nubbles and the dints That form the cornice. a1845Hood To Henrietta 23 That a corne is not the nubble that brings trouble to your toes. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 42 A nubble of iron..dissolves in it like sugar does in water. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. 14 A piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
▪ II. † ˈnubble
variant of knubble v.
1676Verney Fam. Mem. (1899) VII. 223 Sr Fr. [Vincent]..beate him [Ld. Pembroke], threw him downe in ye kennell, nubbled him & dawb'd him daintily. 1725N. Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 462, I..took him hold by the Hair with my left Hand, and nubbled him so well-favouredly with my Right, that you could see no Eyes he had for the Swellings. |