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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nub
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I was just waiting for the discussion to get down to the real nub of things.
▪ The baby clutched a nub of carrot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that's the nub of it.
▪ Here we come to the nub of it.
▪ Interpersonal skills form the nub of the trainers' course.
▪ Speed is of no consequence, but duration is vital, the very nub of the matter.
▪ The nub thereof is, of course, that you must first get to know your heron.
▪ The cat shifted about on his lap, clawed at the woolen nubs of his trousers.
▪ Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub, anchoring the fabric.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nub

Nub \Nub\, v. t. [Cf. Knob.] To push; to nudge; also, to beckon. [Prov. Eng.]

Nub

Nub \Nub\, n. A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nub

"knob, lump, bump," 1590s, variant of dialectal knub, probably a variant of knob. Figurative meaning "point, gist" first recorded 1834.

WordNet
nub
  1. n. a small lump or protuberance [syn: nubble]

  2. a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil" [syn: stub]

  3. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]

Wikipedia
Nub

Nub or NUB may refer to:

  • Nub, a variation of noob
  • Nub, a slider based analog controller on Pandora and PlayStation Portable
  • ISO 639-2 code for the Nobiin language of Nubia
  • Northern University, Bangladesh
  • NUb, a cigar brand manufactured by Oliva Cigar Co.
  • National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades, a defunct trade union in the United Kingdom
  • Nub, colloquialism for pointing stick on a laptop
  • Nahda University, Egypt

Usage examples of "nub".

Each scrape of his tongue across the sensitive areola and nub sent heated shockwaves straight to her pussy, drenching his cock with more of her cream.

When both clamps rested flush against her rosy areolas, he tripped the tiny switches that caused the teeth to close, then bathed each jutting nub with his tongue.

Cutouts left the hard, reddened nubs of her nipples and soft rosy areolas exposed.

The brown nipples, surrounded by warm tan areoles, were pebbled to hard nubs -- the kind a man would nuzzle and suck into his mouth.

Esco had used the fence for hitching rack, and the pointed tops of the palings had been cribbed away to splintered nubs by bored horses.

Then Estancia slowed the pace and spread her most private lips to finger her own nub of pleasure as she pushed herself up and down over his cock.

I fed her a nub of hamburger meat and she tweezed the meat away with her cranelike limbs.

It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis, with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility.

He pulls an unsharpened pencil from his pocket, turns it backward, and gently opens the cover using the soft nub of the eraser.

A trio of nutters called Christopher Meadowbrook, Nub Forkner and Herrick Shnexnayder I had them on the line too.

Guyland, rival to the busty Butch Beausoleil, mother of the greedy, thieving, addicted Christopher Meadowbrook or Spunk Davis or Nub Forkner or whoever the hell we ended up with.

Nub, by the way, and Christopher Meadowbrook, as the two main heavies.

It seemed that the Rose part of her was particularly activated when she put pressure on the tiny nubs behind her ears, as if some sort of chemical was released thereby into her brain.

And Rose was inside her, within her memory sponges, those nubs behind her ears.

Sitting on the bed and looking straight at Verity, she brought her own hands forward and touched both of the nubs at the same time.