different between nubbin vs sliver

English

Etymology

Perhaps nub +? -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?b?n/

Noun

nubbin (plural nubbins)

1. A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
2. (informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.

   As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.

3. (slang) The clitoris.

References

• nubbin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “nubbin” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “nubbin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?nub?bi?n/

Adjective

nubbin

1. essive of nubbi

English

Etymology

From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English sl?fan (as in t?sl?fan (“to split, split up”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl?v.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sl?.v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Noun

sliver (plural slivers)

1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.

     A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).

   1. (regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
2. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
3. (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
4. (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

Synonyms

• (long piece cut or rent off): shard, slice, splinter

Translations

See also

• slither

Verb

sliver (third-person singular simple present slivers, present participle slivering, simple past and past participle slivered)

1. (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

Anagrams

• Elvirs, Silver, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, silver, svirel