nubbin
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English[edit]
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nubbin (plural nubbins)
- A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
- (informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.
- 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 67:
- She walks to the next room, a little larger, holding a double bed. The shade is half drawn, and low light gives each nubbin of the bedspread a shadow.
- As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.
- (slang) The clitoris.
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References[edit]
- “nubbin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “nubbin”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “nubbin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Northern Sami[edit]
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nubbin
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