Other forms: stubbles
Stubble is the short growth of beard a day or two after shaving. Designer stubble, a day's stubble, rough stubble.
Designer stubble is a deliberate length maintained with a trimmer, which took the look from unshaven to intentional in the 1980s. The original sense is agricultural: stubble is the stalks left in a field after harvest, which is what the word means and where the beard sense comes from.
1nounstubbleThe short growth of beard after shaving.
“He hadn't shaved all weekend, and his chin was rough with stubble.”
2nounstalksThe stalks left in a field after harvest.
“After the harvest, the fields were full of golden stubble.”
stubble is short growth.
Old French estoble comes from Latin stipula, a stalk or straw. Stipule comes from the same stalk.
Latin
stipula — stalk, straw
Old French
estoble
Anglo-Norman
stuble
Middle English
stuble
English, today
stubble
From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel. a doublet of stipule.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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