stubble

[ stuhb-uhl ]

noun

1. Usually stubbles. the stumps of grain and other stalks left in the ground when the crop is cut.
2. such stumps collectively.
3. any short, rough growth, as of beard.

stubble

/ ˈstʌbəl /

noun

1. 1. the stubs of stalks left in a field where a crop has been cut and harvested
   2. ( as modifier )

      a stubble field

2. any bristly growth or surface

Derived Forms

• ˈstubbly, adjective

Other Words From

• stubbled stubbly adjective
• un·stubbled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stubble¹

1250–1300; Middle English stuble < Old French estuble < Vulgar Latin *stupula, Latin stipula stipule

Word History and Origins

Origin of stubble¹

C13: from Old French estuble, from Latin stupula, variant of stipula stalk, stem, stubble

Example Sentences

The clippers can bring your beard into stubble territory with ease.

From Popular-Science

Most of the time, I’ll have a few days’ worth of beard stubble, which acts like Velcro when I’m trying to schmear on regular sunblock.

From Outside Online

You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on his skin.

From MIT Technology Review

My captain on the boat, Brazakka, he wanted me to do this Hemingway bit, with the white stubble, and he wanted the hero angle.

From The Daily Beast

After a few years of stubble, the lumberjack whiskers returned, now dyed black.

From The Daily Beast

There was lots of heavy makeup,” Sheppard says, “to cover up the stubble.

From The Daily Beast

He dips his brush into the green paint and giggles, saying that my stubble makes this harder.

From The Daily Beast

He compliments us on our stubble, and we are pleased by this.

From The Daily Beast

You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

From Project Gutenberg

And greenish among the stubble, upon a spear of blond barley, with a double row of seeds, I saw a prègo-diéu.

From Project Gutenberg

Left and right, each felling his man; and cimeters dashed from hands as stubble, shields were smitten through as if of gauze.

From Project Gutenberg

The fire was dying down a little, but one persistent flame moved like a snake in the dry stubble, and he savagely stamped it out.

From Project Gutenberg

They kept it up for about thirty rods and then Sheppy stumbled over a corn stubble and lost a few feet.

From Project Gutenberg