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Vinony

nub

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /nuːb/ / /nub/ / /nʌb/ / /nʊb/

noun

Etymology: Variant spelling of noob.

  1. Alternative spelling of noob.

    “He can’t even make himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? What a nub.”

verb

Etymology: Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.

  1. To hit the ball weakly.
  2. To push; to nudge.
  3. To beckon.
  4. To extemporize a passage of Shakespearean blank verse

    “In Shall we Shog?, Globe artistic director Mark Rylance hilariously found himself having to nub the Quarto version of Hamlet's speech to the players.”