nub

nub

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Nubian languages.

Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.

• IPA^(key): /nʌb/

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

nub (plural nubs)

1. (obsolete) The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon.
2. A small lump or knob.
3. The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.

   Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist

   What do you think is the nub of the problem?

   • 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], How to Tell a Story:

     Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.

   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 115:

     But surely the males are no problem? Aha...no we're approaching the nub.

4. (slang) The clitoris.
   • 2007, Melissa MacNeal, Hot for It‎, →ISBN, page 198:

     “ — and then rub her nub with the bridge of your nose, right where the nerve will drive her straight to the ceiling!”

   • 2008, Arianna Hart, A Man for Marley‎, →ISBN, page 82:

     When he used his fingers to rub her nub, he didn't have to wait anymore. She exploded for the second time that morning,...

   • 2010, Beverly Rae, Wild Cat‎, →ISBN, page 81:

     He stroked her, using her movements to increase the pressure on her nub, catching her between his fingers.

5. (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.

nub (third-person singular simple present nubs, present participle nubbing, simple past and past participle nubbed)

1. (baseball) To hit the ball weakly.
2. To push; to nudge.
3. To beckon.

Variant spelling of noob.

• IPA^(key): /nuːb/
• Rhymes: -uːb

nub (plural nubs)

1. (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.

   He can't even make himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? What a nub.

• BUN, Bun, bun

From English noob, from newbie.

nub m

1. (slang, chiefly Kosovo) newbie, amateur

• amator m, axhami m