Stubborn; thick-set.
1842. Upon the hull, I guess I’m rather stubbeder than you be.—Mrs. Kirkland, ‘Forest Life,’ i. 117.
1853. Jullien is ‘more ‘stubbed’ than what Apollos was,’ who was tall and lank.—Knick. Mag., xlii. 437 (Oct.).
1854. You found a short, tough, ‘stubbed’ ear, [and] put it in your pocket.—Id., xliii. 432 (April).
1855. The back of old Winter is broken. He may be ‘so as to be about,’ a little longer; but he won’t be so ‘stubbed’ as he has been.—Id., xlv. 320 (March). (Italics in the original.)
1856. ‘I wonder,’ said one, ‘that Barker didn’t compound the matter.’ ‘O, Barker is one of the stubbed sort. You know these middling kind of people always have a spite against old families.’—H. B. Stowe, ‘Dred,’ chap. xxvii.
1859. No man, unless he were ‘stubbeder’ than we are, should ever dedicate such a book as this ‘at’ us.—Knick. Mag., liii. 216 (Feb.).
