Rough and textured, as fabric

Usage examples of nubbly.

A large red meaty character with eyebrows at a demonic-looking synclinal angle and very small nubbly gray teeth.

The deciduous trees were always skeletal, the pines palsied, the willows wind-whipped and nubbly, the grass dun and crunchy underfoot, the water-rats always seeing the big drainage-picture first and gliding like night to the cement sides to flee.

She perched on the edge of her sofa and ran her fingertips over its nubbly fabric.

She tried to read a magazine, but she might as well have been looking at the nubbly surface of the painted cement block walls.

Its bark was a nubbly mass of red-and-white stripes, with mold and mushrooms sprouting in cracks between the stripes.

I ran my fingers up and down the flat, rubbery orchid roots and up and down the nubbly mango bark, and then we went back into the house.

Willie lay in bed that night, tired and aching, but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamed that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity.

He let his hand trail along the nubbly rock as through water over the side of a drifting boat.

Stepping out of the tub, he wrapped himself in a nubbly bath towel roughly the size of a landing pad and returned to the bedroom.

They rented robes of a plain, dark nubbly blue silk with the matching reinforced collar bands worn by folk from the outlying provinces.

The girl held a gourd against her thigh, its nubbly gold and orange a bright splotch of color on the pale fawn skin.

The short, loose-sleeved tunic he held up briefly was made of a nubbly, loosely woven linen, and undoubtedly as cool as anything he was likely to find, but it still was black.

Both his tunic and his nubbly wool mantle were a dull dust-umber, the color of weathered stone.

He lay on a warm, nubbly deck near a pair of massive, clawed hind feet.

It means she is real and she has answers and I am someone less, not completely real, even though I can feel the nubbly texture of the office chair right through my slacks.