nubble
- n a small lump or protuberance
- Instead, there were harshly patterned compositions with heavily outlined figures, thickly painted limbs that looked like kneaded dough, nubble-knuckled hands and feet.
- Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that .