Meaning

3 senses
  1. A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.

    a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)

  2. (informal)A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.

    As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.

  3. (euphemistic, slang, vulgar)Synonym of clitoris.

Origin

Perhaps nub + -in.

Perhaps nub + -in.

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Forms

plural: nubbins
Singularnubbin
Pluralnubbins

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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