What is "nubby"

Usage examples of "nubby".

I touched the armrest, felt the rough, nubby weave that wore like iron.

A jeweler by profession, he wore two pendant necklaces over a nubby sweater, matching pajamalike trousers and nubuck clogs.

The crisp cottons, the nubby wools, soft flannels and smooth bright satins, all of it a pleasure.

He was medium-size, late thirties to forty, solidly built, with a well-cured beach tan and a nubby, sunburned nose.

Noelle's cabin is neat, austere, underfurnished: no paintings, no light-sculptures, nothing to please the visual sense, only a few small sleek bronze statuettes, a smooth oval slab of green stone, and some objects evidently chosen for their rich textures—a strip of nubby fabric stretched across a frame, a sea urchin's stony test, a collection of rough sandstone chunks.