Nubs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 28 anagrams from letters in nubs (bnsu).
1585-95; Low German, Middle Low German knubbe; cf. knob
Or you could go whole hog like nub Sweeney and just wear overalls.
A common suffering united him and nub, and when they could they helped each other.
nub was now near the hole where the female hornbill had been seen.
“Ay, Massa Shobbrok, you can never pray for too much,” said nub.
Crippling weight loss and the task of adjusting to life as a single mom nearly wore me to a nub.
nub undertook to do this without exciting the suspicion of the mutineers.
“I no tink we lose our dinner, though,” said nub, as he got to the bottom.
In vain the mate and nub looked around on every side in the hope of seeing it.
nub gazed at the creature, but his courage did not fail him.
“We go to get fresh water, and be back soon wid it,” said nub as they passed.