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stubbed en · ADJ
Meanings
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Short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
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Abounding in stubs; stubby.
Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood, / Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; [...]
1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 25, page 145:
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Not delicate; hardy, rugged.
Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.
1744, George Berkeley, Siris: A Chain Of Philosophical Reflexions And Inquiries Concerning The Virtues Of Tar Water:
Forms
Deriveds
unstubbed · stubbedness
stubbed en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of stub