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Nub

noun

A small lump or protuberance. Synonym: nubble.

A small piece. Synonym: stub. "A stub of a pencil"

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, sum. "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"

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"Nub" Quotes from Famous Books

... in most other matters, while he rightly believed that her mind would be expanded by visiting the strange and interesting scenes to which during the voyage he hoped to introduce her. "As for needle-work and embroidery, why, Jacob and I can teach you as well as can most women; and our black fellow Nub will cut out your dresses with all the skill and taste of a practised mantua-maker," he had said when talking to Alice on the ...

— The South Sea Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston

... also full of the subject, and while she twisted her hair into a small "nub" about the size, shape and color of a peanut, ...

— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung

Words linked to "Nub" : protuberance, stuff, part, bulge, piece, hypostasis, sum, quintessence, hump, gibbosity, quiddity, haecceity, swelling, heart and soul, excrescence, bump, extrusion, core, gibbousness, bare bones, prominence, protrusion, mental object, cognitive content, jut, content