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Nubbly vs Bristling - What's the difference?

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Nubbly is a related term of bristling.


As adjectives the difference between nubbly and bristling

is that nubbly is rough or lumpy while bristling is having bristles.

As a verb bristling is

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As a noun bristling is

the act of one who bristles.

nubbly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Rough or lumpy
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 7, author=Julia Moskin, title=Koreans Share Their Secret for Chicken With a Crunch, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=When that crust is nubbly and evenly browned, and the chicken meat is cooked through, the chicken is sublime.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1978, author=Alice Munro, chapter=Mischief, title=The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
    • , passage=Though Clifford paid preliminary homage to them both, she was the one he finally made love to, rather quickly on the nubbly hooked rug.}}

    bristling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having bristles.
  • Showing anger.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Tottenham had hoped to make a statement of real intent against the title pace-setters and while manager Harry Redknapp did not secure the victory he craved, he at least saw his side match United every stride of the way in a game that fizzled out after a bristling start. }}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who bristles.
  • * 1906 , Jack London, White Fang
    • When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.