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- adjective
nubby ; containingnubs - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
nub .
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Examples
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The next batter, Matt Holliday , nubbed a dribbler toward starting pitcher Shaun Marcum .
Cardinals Roll Into the World Series Matthew Futterman 2011
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They may show up at your front door, saying that, look, if you don't buy this trust kit, your estate could be nubbed by taxes, it could take years for estate to be given out to heirs.
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Horses stood motionlessly in a railed pen where the grass was nubbed down to the dirt.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Horses stood motionlessly in a railed pen where the grass was nubbed down to the dirt.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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Horses stood motionlessly in a railed pen where the grass was nubbed down to the dirt.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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It was a resinous substance, chunked up, nubbed up.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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It was a resinous substance, chunked up, nubbed up.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The nubbed leaves come away in a tease of green, thinning down to the membrane: the quick, purpled, beginnings of the male ... the stub-root aching in its oil.
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It was a resinous substance, chunked up, nubbed up.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Claire fears he will bite her, but instead she feels his tongue, more startling than a nip, warm and damp and faintly nubbed.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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