Synonyms of the word

stubble

• n. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

beard

• n. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
• n. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
• n. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
• n. The byssus of certain shellfish.
• n. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
• n. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
• n. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
• n. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being…
• n. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
• n. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay male in order to…
• v. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
• v. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
• v. (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
• v. (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

chaff

• n. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
• n. By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
• n. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil, dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with…
• n. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• v. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to…

husk

• n. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating…
• n. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
• n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
• v. (transitive) To remove husks from.
• n. An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm.
• v. (intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.
• v. (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

shuck

• n. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
• n. (slang) A phony.
• v. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

straw

• n. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
• n. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
• n. (countable) A drinking straw.
• n. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• n. (figuratively) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
• adj. Made of straw.
• adj. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
• adj. (figuratively) Imaginary, but presented as real.

whiskers

• n. plural of whisker.