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Stubbly

Stubbly \Stub"bly\, a. Covered with stubble; stubbled.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stubbly

c.1600, from stubble (n.) + -y (2). Related: Stubbliness.

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stubbly

a. Having stubble.

WordNet
stubbly

adj. having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin" [syn: bestubbled, stubbled]

Usage examples of "stubbly".

Brownpony took the zucchetto from his hand and centered it carefully upon his stubbly tonsure, then patted it down.

He turned to see Sheriff Hazen, yawning and rubbing his stubbly chin, the hair on one side of his head sticking out horizontally.

At any rate, the road took the three men through a small chestnut forest, over rain-grooved stones covered with green spiny pods, and out onto a broad, stubbly, treeless plain.

The stubbly little robot struts around stetching his joints between irritated whis- tles.

Reminiscent of the immortal Tartarin, his ready bureau furnished him with a stiff black moustache and some specially stout horsehair to typify the stubbly beard of that hero.

Then they unswathed it, and propped upright before the pedestal the gangrenous corpse of a corpulent old man with stubbly beard and unkempt white hair.

Avoiding all roads, footpaths, villages, as Ivan is sure to have sentries posted there, I simply follow my star across country, uphill and downdale, over streams, bogs, marshes and stubbly harvested maize fields.

Maxwell was a short, tough fireplug of a man whose stubbly haircut seemed to spark with aggressive energy.

But this space had none of the vastness or majesty of the earlier caverns, just a few stubbly stalagmites rising from the rough uneven floor.

The last cannie in the line, a big guy with stubbly iron-gray hair and beard, was wearing a long khaki duster and carrying a scoped longblaster by its sling.

Raz, on the other hand, was a smelly, stubbly, beer-bellied, tobacco-chawin' pain in the neck.

The men who had ambushed me were dressed in distinguishably in site boots and labourers' tunics, but they were mainly fair or redheads, favouring long moustaches, whereas the new crowd were dark, swarthy and stubbly chinned.

His fingers crossed his stubbly chin, but the chill was so great, even with the heat from the bathhouse stove, that he had not shaved, but only washed his face and hands, before hurrying back up to the tower's top level to dress for the cold day ahead.

He blinked when Ginny and Svartalf came in, and turned a beautiful Tyrian purple as I followed in the full glory of mink coat and stubbly chin.