nubbin
- n a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn)
- The film pines for those quiet moments when a wounded man can sit holding a baby, the newborn sucking on the man's nubbin of a blasted-off finger.
- Pound Puppies are dogs afflicted with melancholia and creased bodies that only a child could wear down to a nubbin.
- After all the hooting and fist-shaking, after all the hanging chads and pregnant-nubbin punchcards have been adjudicated, will Americans accept the verdict, whichever way it goes .