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Crossword-Solution: NUB 3 letters, 136 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Nub v. t. To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.
Nub n. A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or
gist, as of a story.

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Word Anagrams
NUB anagram BUN, UNB

We have 136 clues for the answer “NUB”

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#2 bit 1 answer
1" pencil, maybe 1 answer
A pencil that's mostly eraser 1 answer
Broken crayon, perhaps 1 answer
Core issue 1 answer
Core; kernel 1 answer
Gist of a story: Colloq. 1 answer
Gist of anything. 1 answer
Gist: Colloq. 1 answer
Essential core 1 answer
Half-inch pencil 1 answer
It's not much left to write 1 answer
Last bit of lead 1 answer
Mostly used-up pencil 1 answer
Much-used pencil, maybe 1 answer
Nearly gone pencil 1 answer
Not much to write? 1 answer
One-inch pencil, say 1 answer
Over-sharpened pencil 1 answer
Pencil after lots of crosswords, maybe? 1 answer
Pencil at the end of its life 1 answer
Pencil box bit 1 answer
Pencil eraser, e.g. 1 answer
Pencil lump 1 answer
Pencil stump 1 answer
Pencil stump, e.g. 1 answer
Pencil that's been much used 1 answer
Pencil that's majority-eraser 1 answer
Pencil you used all semester, say 1 answer
Pencil, barely 1 answer
Pencil, late in life 1 answer
Point of a story: Colloq. 1 answer
Point: Colloq. 1 answer
Point; gist. 1 answer
Essence at the heart of an argument 1 answer
Short piece of a pencil 1 answer
Short piece of pencil 1 answer
Small pencil 1 answer
Small protrusion 1 answer
Something whittled down 1 answer
Stubby end 1 answer
Stubby pencil, e.g. 1 answer
The centre point of a matter 1 answer
The real issue 1 answer
Very-much-used pencil 1 answer
Well-loved pencil 1 answer
Well-loved pencil, perhaps 1 answer
Well-used pencil, say 1 answer
What something might be worn down to 1 answer
What's almost 100% unleaded? 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NUB (5)

That 'nub' is so ingeniously, so casually, flung in, and immediately left there in the tail of the letter, undwelt upon, that an indifferent reader would never suspect that it was the heart and core of the epistle, if he even took note of it at all, This is the 'nub'-- 'i hope the warm weather is doing your lungs good--_I was afraid when you was bleeding you would die_--give my respects,' etc.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
With such a cargo on board, digestion is a slow process, and we must sit long in the cool chambers and smoke--and read French newspapers, which have a strange fashion of telling a perfectly straight story till you get to the “nub” of it, and then a word drops in that no man can translate, and that story is ruined.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Now if you will listen, you will know that this must be the list of statistics which was to be the 'nub' of your great effort, and the accompanying blast the beginning of the burst of eloquence which was continued on the next page--and you will recognize that there was where you broke down.” She read the page.
The Gilded Age, Complete Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 2006
And sometimes, if he has had good success, he is so glad and happy that he will repeat the “nub” of it and glance around from face to face, collecting applause, and then repeat it again.
How Tell a Story and Others Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2016
Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretence that he does not know it is a nub.
How Tell a Story and Others Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2016

Quotes with NUB (3)

... like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.
Megan Abbott You Will Know Me
Mrs. Sussex said Byron’s loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn’t want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she’d never been there.
Rachel Joyce Perfect
She shivered under his touch, desire dampening her panties and making her clench her thighs together in an attempt to find some relief. His devilish hands relaxed their grip on her hips and slid around to cup her ass, pulling her close. Thick, hard evidence of his desire pressed against her belly. God, she wanted this man, and not just to silent the stressful thoughts always swirling in her head. She wanted him, not just the divine moment of oblivion that blocked out everythi…
Avery Flynn Hollywood on Tap
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 211 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).