The dog chewed his bone down to a nub.
The shoes have little nubs on the bottom that prevent you from slipping.
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By building calcium carbonate cups one on top of another and budding asexually, polyps collectively bulge, branch, ripple and fan out into diverse shapes, including shelves, boulders, pillars, branches and cauliflower-like nubs.—Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025 But, to my delight, there was a vibrating nub in the center of the silicone petals.—Amanda Chatel, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2025 Point Roberts is a 5-square-mile U.S. exclave whose only land connection lies in Canada, which supplies the unincorporated nub of American soil its water and electricity.—Dee-Ann Durbin and Sally Ho, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025 The best Caesar dressing gets textural interest from cracks of peppercorn and nubs of Parmesan cheese.—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nub
Word History
Etymology
alteration of English dialect knub, probably from Low German knubbe
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