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Definition of Nubbling
1. nubble [v] - See also: nubble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nubbling
Literary usage of Nubbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1871)
"This nubbling might have helped the pot boil, when your dirty cuttings from the
shambles at three-ha'pence a pound shall stand at a cold simmer. ..."
2. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"When he came to the nubbling chit, He was tucked up so neat and so pretty, The
rumbler jogged off from his feet, And he died with his face to the city ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"This fragment might have stopped a flaw against snow comes. (A coal foes.)
Cinders are dear, gentlemen. This nubbling might have helped the pot boil, ..."
4. The American Monthly Magazine (1837)
"This nubbling might have helped the pot boil, when your dirty cuttings from the
shambles at three ha'-pence a pound shall stand at a cold simmer. ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1887)
"... lunges forward under the pull of the mainsail, and then if you rest your hand
on the warp you feel that steady "nubbling" which pleases the fisherman. ..."
6. Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern by Reginald Brimley Johnson (1894)
"When he came to the nubbling chit, He was tucked up so neat and so pretty; £ The
rumbler jogged off with his feet, And he died with his face to the city. ..."
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