Short and thick; truncated.--Todd. Webster. This word is now provincial in England. In the United States it is colloquial and not much used. It is found in well known authors.
A pain he in his head-piece feels,
Against a stubb'd tree he reels,
And up went poor Hobgoblin's heels.--Drayton.
It is also used to signify hardy; not delicate.--Todd's Johnson. In this sense it is heard with us. Ex. That is a 'stubbed child;' meaning hardy, plump, or strong.
The hardness of stubbed vulgar constitutions renders them insensible of a thousand things.--Bishop Berkeley.
If he thinks I'll put that treatment to my wife. he's mistaken. He may he stubbeder than I be, Uncle, that's a fact; but if he was twice as stubbed I'd walk into him like a thousand of brick.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 29.
However, I can always help a gentleman, if he asks me like a gentleman; and, upon the whole, I guess I'm rather stubbeder than you be.--Mrs. Clavers, Forest Life, Vol I. p. 97.