See nubble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "nubben",
"3": "",
"4": "to knock, cuff"
},
"expansion": "Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nubbles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nubble (plural nubbles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "small knob or lump",
"word": "knubble"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "86 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "87 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "89 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "nubbly"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
127,
134
]
],
"ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, “chapter 1”, in Captains Courageous:",
"text": "Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of knubble (“small knob or lump”)."
],
"id": "en-nubble-en-noun-tyjUmx78",
"links": [
[
"knubble",
"knubble#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnʌbəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nubble.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌbəl"
}
],
"word": "nubble"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "nubben",
"3": "",
"4": "to knock, cuff"
},
"expansion": "Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nubbles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "nubbling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "nubbled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "nubbled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nubble (third-person singular simple present nubbles, present participle nubbling, simple past and past participle nubbled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
101,
107
]
],
"ref": "1712, William Wagstaffe, Crispin the Cobler's Confutation of Ben H-dley:",
"text": "if his Master went an Hair's Breadth beyond his Duty, he was a Tyrant, that it was lawful for him to Nubble him",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat or bruise with the fist."
],
"id": "en-nubble-en-verb-fQ3DOqZi",
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"bruise",
"bruise"
],
[
"fist",
"fist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To beat or bruise with the fist."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnʌbəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nubble.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌbəl"
}
],
"word": "nubble"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʌbəl",
"Rhymes:English/ʌbəl/2 syllables"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "nubbly"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "nubben",
"3": "",
"4": "to knock, cuff"
},
"expansion": "Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nubbles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nubble (plural nubbles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "small knob or lump",
"word": "knubble"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
127,
134
]
],
"ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, “chapter 1”, in Captains Courageous:",
"text": "Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of knubble (“small knob or lump”)."
],
"links": [
[
"knubble",
"knubble#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnʌbəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nubble.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌbəl"
}
],
"word": "nubble"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʌbəl",
"Rhymes:English/ʌbəl/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "nubben",
"3": "",
"4": "to knock, cuff"
},
"expansion": "Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nubbles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "nubbling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "nubbled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "nubbled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "nubble (third-person singular simple present nubbles, present participle nubbling, simple past and past participle nubbled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
101,
107
]
],
"ref": "1712, William Wagstaffe, Crispin the Cobler's Confutation of Ben H-dley:",
"text": "if his Master went an Hair's Breadth beyond his Duty, he was a Tyrant, that it was lawful for him to Nubble him",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat or bruise with the fist."
],
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"bruise",
"bruise"
],
[
"fist",
"fist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To beat or bruise with the fist."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnʌbəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nubble.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nubble.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌbəl"
}
],
"word": "nubble"
}
Download raw JSONL data for nubble meaning in English (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.