How To Use Nubbin In A Sentence
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He tried, and failed, to kill himself; and his progress to the nubbing cheat was a triumph of execration.
A Book of Scoundrels
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The changes come as young people in Manchester are snubbing a national trend, which has seen the number of worshippers in the UK drop by 100,000 in the two years 2000-2002.
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There were clam shells piled up with red checkerberries, and caddis worms on the half shell, with spicebush nubbins.
Woodland Tales
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My feet are freezing standing around on the summit of Kilimanjaro, my toes little nubbins of ice inside my boots.
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In particular, his reconstruction of almost the entire pelvic girdle from a little nubbin of broken bone is like watching a magician pull a living temnospondyl out of a hat.
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But why deprive yourself of the soulful braised collards and kale with shards of soft-roasted garlic and crisp nubbins of bacon?
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Seven months after its long-awaited completion, drivers are snubbing the Manchester and Salford inner relief route and preferring to wait in jams on busy through-route Deansgate.
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BANK staff are snubbing their employers to take out loans through a peer-to-peer lending site.
The Sun
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To keep snubbing the only real skipper in the team is an insult to a player who has always given his all.
The Sun
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Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
XII. In Which the Man of the Hill Continues His History. Book VIII
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Tan flew back to Malaysia straight after the game to attend a business meeting, snubbing the chance to build bridge.
The Sun
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He signed a new three-year deal after snubbing the Premiership offer.
The Sun
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Apparently Mark Wahlberg, Tilda Swinton and Lily Allen all have third nipples, and they're not alone: up to six percent of people have some form of polymastia (latin for freakish extra boobs), ranging from a relatively innocuous nubbin to a fully-formed, fully-functional breast.
Frances McInnis: Five Conversation Starters: Boobs, Boobs, Boobs
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Three cases showed small fibrous nubbins that had been submitted as atrophic or regressed.
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I looked down at the sausage, chopped into delightful nubbins, flavored with spices.
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The part of her hair that was above the water was almost completely dry and the hair under the water shyly shielded most of her breasts from view, although part of one blushing pink nubbin peeked out from beneath its dark shroud.
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So not much chance of snubbing the heir to the throne.
Times, Sunday Times
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I ceased treating her too kindly - snubbing, and riding with a curb-bridle, is what she needs.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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For the next several weeks, Grandma refused to speak to Mother, openly snubbing her not only in public but in her own backyard as well.
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Anger has spilled into claims of intimidation and media manipulation, with once-friendly neighbours snubbing each other in the street.
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On the distal margin of the intermedium illustrated by Williston is a very small, subrectangular nubbin-like process that could represent an incorporated proximal centrale.
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And to cap a miserable championship he was criticised for snubbing the presentation ceremony.
The Sun
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It don't pay, 'cept to buy a piece of rope at nubbing cheat.
The Shadow Of The Lion
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It can't happen: something always goes wrong - and it's all the more likely if you have mortally offended one of your guests by snubbing his hairdressing skills.
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So not much chance of snubbing the heir to the throne.
Times, Sunday Times
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White candidates had to pay attention to them, either seeking their support in order to create biracial coalitions, or ostentatiously snubbing them in an effort to solidify the white vote.
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In snubbing the countryside and its urban allies, the Government got it seriously wrong.
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Old Nubbins was up ahead, as usual, but behaving himself for once, and there was dour old Hosford, and the half-miler Benny Vaughn, and tough little A. W. Smith from Tenille, Georgia, and Mark Burr from Indiana, all running in a group while Benny did one of his commentator voice-overs, pretending they were in the final straightaway of some fantasy Olympic finals.
Again to Carthage
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_crashing-chetes_ = the teeth; _nubbing-chete_ = the gallows, and so forth.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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Mighty Wal-Mart decided not to offer real bargains in the early days of the Christmas shopping season, and found that customers were snubbing its stores - well, sort of.
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If snubbing is to be done, Florida should be the snubber, not the snubee.
Archive 2008-02-01
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The administration may be doing the press a small favor by snubbing it, freeing reporters to abandon their scripted palaver and dig elsewhere for stories.
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Conservatives challenge reformers, the government and opposition quarrel but agree on snubbing outsiders when the latter call for reform.
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Block and boulder-strewn nubbins and castle koppies (and the tors of south-western England) apparently evolve through the further weathering, in the subsurface, of incipient bornhardts.
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There was some sort of confusion, but he said that they were not snubbing the committee and in fact they planned to reach out to the intelligence committee and all of the various committees.
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When I do leave her I feel like I'm cutting off my arms and legs, and I'm left this armless and legless nubbin who can think about nothing but getting back to her.
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From rival rallies and refusing to relinquish the title president or his seat in Parliament, to snubbing Mogoba's overtures and then forming the Positive Action Council, Makwetu became a destructive force.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I've never been a big believer in the mouse nubbin found on some laptops, but the size of the Meteor would make it a good candidate for such a pointing device.
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Tan flew back to Malaysia straight after the game to attend a business meeting, snubbing the chance to build bridge.
The Sun
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The new Greens, he adds, belong to a younger generation and several have already proven their mettle by snubbing standing invitations to join the provincial Liberals.
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There are a number of strange new interface widgets around the place, including a kind of tiny, almost unnoticeable nubbin that allows you to drag entirely random panes out of the side of other panes.
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A nubbin on the left side of the Glock magazine lip needs to be ground off for the sliding gate to fit over the lip.
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To top it off, the leading edges of the saddle are covered with little ball-bearing-like nubbins that reduce friction as your legs pump past them.
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In the majority of these cases, a fibrous nubbin of tissue is found at the terminus of the spermatic cord.
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All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long!
Black Bartlemy's Treasure
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Give me a new toothbrush and I can widdle the thing down to nothing but a shabby nubbin of its former self within three days, using nothing but my teeth and gums.
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That's not snubbing Scotland, but I just want to concentrate on playing in the Premiership.
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There are a number of strange new interface widgits around the place, including a kind of tiny, almost unnoticeable nubbin that allows you to drag entirely random panes out the side of other panes.
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I agree john q public has no idea whats going on at the meetings. prime examples are all of these blogs. only one side or part of the story is presented. also most people don't know about them and why it is even important for them to attend. and by the time they get home from their mind nubbing jobs, they don't want to go to a meeting and listne to some blowhard who reminds them to much of their idiot boss or know-it-all father-in-law.
Fair Use
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His feet kept slipping, and the handholds - tiny quartz crystal nubbins in the granite - were worn smooth and offered little purchase.
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My lump was just a lump, a pea-sized nubbin of nothing-to-worry-about.
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He believes that by scaring a horse, such as sacking them out incorrectly, snubbing, or tying a scary object to the saddle to where the horse has no means of escape will lead to a nervous or spooky horse.
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The government denied the logging ban was an election stunt and said the state's conservationists had failed a test of their credibility by snubbing efforts to save the forest.
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The fans are snubbing live BSkyB coverage of the Premier League at ￡304 million over five years.
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When we last left our hero, he had survived a horrible snubbing by toupeed Priceline.com pitchman and former stock-holding billionaire WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER, only to be verbally attacked by a disgruntled Star Trek fan.
WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: September 2001 Archives
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Big dicks can always shrivel into nubbins of insignificance, and as such they are obvious stand-up stand-ins for phallocentric patriarchy.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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Kate Gosselin is being a "total diva" on the set of "Dancing With the Stars" -- snubbing other contestants and behaving frostily to crew members, sources tell Page Six.
Kate Gosselin 'A Total Diva' On 'Dancing With The Stars' Set
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The Geordie Ambassador's niece is bottle-feeding these appealing creatures, which have cheeky little black faces, silky coats, and little nubbins of horns.
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He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: 'Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities'; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow.
A Book of Scoundrels
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The right postzygapophysis of the more posterior vertebra can be identified; a small nubbin of bone anterolateral to this might represent part of a cervical rib.
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He signed a new three-year deal after snubbing the Premiership offer.
The Sun
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He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: ` Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities '; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow.
A Book of Scoundrels
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To keep snubbing the only real skipper in the team is an insult to a player who has always given his all.
The Sun
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The ‘hammer’ and ‘anvil’ bones of the mammalian ear are descendants of these nubbins.
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I showed Joe the nubbin, and then without much fanfare, chucked it in the trash.
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To put it even more simply: farro is like a bowl full of little wheat nubbins.
I bet this tastes better when Zuni does it..
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In spite of the early kick-off most customers were snubbing the option of coffee and orange juice and opting for lager or bitter.
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Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) engages in a bit of Bluegrass State treachery by snubbing the Colonel and ordering from the lesser-known poultry chain [Strategic Healthcare Townhouse, 230 Second Street SE].
HUFFPOST HILL - MAY 4, 2010
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It can't happen: something always goes wrong - and it's all the more likely if you have mortally offended one of your guests by snubbing his hairdressing skills.
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Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins like stones smoothed by a river.
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{But/And} when {that/---} we come to {Tyburn/the nubbing cheat}
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]