nub

Crippling weight loss and the task of adjusting to life as a single mom nearly wore me to a nub.

Or you could go whole hog like Nub Sweeney and just wear overalls.

The nub of the whole matter is: The claims made for Sanatogen are unwarranted, misleading and fraudulent.

And, having drawn all possible satisfaction from the other's amazement, he sprang the nub of his joke with a grin.

In the flat center of each lock was a small keyhole and alongside of it a notched nub, the nub being sunk in a minute depression.

Only the red nub of it showed above the timber line across the lake, and the shadows lay inland a long way.

Halloway reflectively knocked the nub of ash from his pipe, and went on more slowly.