nubbly


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nub·bly

 (nŭb′lē)
adj. nub·bli·er, nub·bli·est
Rough or irregular; textured: the nubbly surface of raw silk.

[From nubble, a small lump (from nub; see nub) + -y.]
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Adj.1.nubbly - of textilesnubbly - of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"
rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
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I added the walnuts and raisins to the original recipe because I love the nubbly texture.
There were crunchy, nubbly bits too so perhaps a nod to apple crumble, plus a strewing of some kind of herb, possibly savoury, as Fhior is that kind of place.
The nubbly, foam-like hexagonal panels scatter and absorb electro-optical and radar energy.
Garner's skinned statue of Sims (the original is located near the 103rd Street entrance to New York's Central Park) is hewn from nubbly foam and covered in bloodred polyurethane.
You'll harvest a half-dozen varieties, from nubbly bladderwrack to cellophane-thin nori to glistening ribbons of kombu (which makes for a terrific soup thickener).
At the same time the proportion of nubbly type plaque mixed plaque nubbly and nodular type calcification in the main plaque in inconsistent group were higher than those in consistent group (P less than 0.05).
La Quilda sank her shears into the hen's body, she singed the feathers, laughing; she felt around in the entrails until pulling out a yellow, nubbly, clustered, botryoidal lump of flesh.
The style of the clothes is a throwback to the early part of the last century with lots of tweedy, nubbly cloths, military style coats, collarless shirts, vests and even cardigans.
Others roll nubbly, hand-dyed strands of wool between their fingers with a concentration and expertise reminiscent of some mystic, ancient ritual.
I look for my father in the open-air flea market along the Cours Mirabeau, where they sell raw silk scarves of all colors and straw baskets of all shapes and sizes * I finger the silk, let it slide across the back of my hand to feel its nubbly smoothness * I imagine carrying home a dozen brown eggs, russet potatoes, and leeks in a new shopping basket with one cane dyed red, woven in and out among the white undyed canes like a ribbon running around its circumference * I look and look but buy nothing The images toll Platt's loss as he searches Provence's boulangeries, pear trees, even the smoke of brush fires.