Crossword clues for nub
nub
- Small protuberance
- Short pencil
- Short piece of pencil
- Stunted end
- Pencil, late in life
- Pencil stub
- Itty-bitty pencil
- Worn-down piece
- Stubby end
- Short piece of a pencil
- Pencil on its last legs
- Worn-down part
- Worn-down end
- Worn pencil, e.g
- Worn end
- What something might be worn down to
- Stubby pencil, e.g
- Salient point
- Run-down pencil
- Point of a story: Colloq
- Pencil, barely
- Pencil that's been much used
- Pencil that has been sharpened down to a stub
- Pencil lump
- Pencil eraser, e.g
- Pencil box bit
- Pencil at the end of its life
- Pencil after lots of crosswords, maybe?
- Oversharpened pencil?
- Half-inch pencil
- Gist — kernel
- Diminutive pencil
- Broken crayon, perhaps
- 1" No. 2, say
- Crux
- Heart of the matter
- Core; kernel
- Gist of the matter
- Essence of an idea
- Kernel
- Center
- Central point
- One-inch pencil, say
- Small lump
- The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- A small piece
- A small lump or protuberance
- Punch line
- Gist of a story
- The heart of the matter
- The real issue
- Small piece
- Cake rising in central point
- Roll up for the most important part
- Point: cake’s been brought up
- Hairstyle swept up into small lump
- Main point
- Central part
- Pencil end
- Pencil stump, e.g
- Pencil remnant
- The skinny
- Worn-down pencil, e.g
- Much-used pencil, maybe
- Well-worn pencil
- Well-used pencil
- Very short pencil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nub \Nub\, v. t. [Cf. Knob.] To push; to nudge; also, to beckon. [Prov. Eng.]
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
"knob, lump, bump," 1590s, variant of dialectal knub, probably a variant of knob. Figurative meaning "point, gist" first recorded 1834.
WordNet
n. a small lump or protuberance [syn: nubble]
a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil" [syn: stub]
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 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.