How to pronounce stubble
American English pronunciation
STUB-ul
- IPA
- /ˈstʌbəl/
- Syllables
- STUB · ul (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What stubble means
The short stalks left in a field after the crop is cut
In a sentence: After the wheat was cut, the farmer's field was full of prickly stubble.
Where it comes from: It came into English through old French from a Latin word for a stalk or a piece of straw.
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