Definitions for nubbins

nubbins nub·bin

Spelling: [nuhb-in]
IPA: /ˈnʌb ɪn/

Nubbins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in nubbins (bbinnsu).

Definitions for nubbins

noun

  1. a small lump or stunted piece; stub.
  2. a small or imperfect ear of corn.
  3. an undeveloped fruit.

Origin of nubbins

1685-95, Americanism; perhaps nub + -in, variant of -ing1

Examples for nubbins

The faces of the ashlars are nicely finished except for several rough bosses or nubbins.

Three of these "nubbins," which had been preserved, I saw many years after the war.

So poor indeed, that it was capable of producing nothing but nubbins (corn) from which it derived its name.

And I'm afeard they'll be a heap of nubbins not wuth the shuckin'.

It may have been the intention of the stone masons to remove these nubbins after the wall was completed.

One is filled with nubbins; the other with large, shapely, well-matured ears of corn.

It could handle only one ear of corn at a time and it was neither shaped properly nor adjustable enough to get the nubbins.

Every morning nubbins gets up and tries to wake up White Nose.

And that was a poor farm in a remote part of Indiana, in a little place that was so poor that the corn was all nubbins.

Word Value for nubbins
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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