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2. Slang, nose, All SI. beak, snoot, schnozz, schnoz-zle, schnozzola; snout, muzzle.

nuance, n. shade, shading, gradation; nicety, subtlety, distinction, fine point, particular, refinement, delicacy; suggestion, hint, trace, tinge, touch, dash; suspicion, soup?on.

nub, n. 1. knob, knop, pommel, nubbin, nubble; bump, hump, node, nodule; protuberance, protrusion, gall, growth, excrescence, tubercle, tuberculum, Bot. tubercule, tuberosity, tumor; bulge, swelling, tumescence, gibbosity, Bot., Zool. boss; knot, bunch, gnarl. knurl, burl; mound, hillock, hummock, monticule, knop, (in South Africa) kopje, Chiefly Brit, barrow, Brit. Dial. tump.
2. lump, clump, chunk, mass, hunk; block, square, wad, squab, Inf. hunch; nugget, clod; piece, fragment, bit, butt.
3. Informal, core, pith, kernel, nucleus, center, focus, Law. gravamen; meat, heart, heart and soul, soul, marrow, sap; gist, sum and substance; material, matter, fiber, fabric, Inf. nitty-gritty, Inf. nuts and bolts; essence, quiddity, haecceity; point, main point, essential point, cardinal point, Inf. bottom line; issue, real issue, matter at hand, Inf. name of the game.

nucleus, n. core, pith, kernel, center, focus, Inf. nub, Law. gravamen; meat, heart, heart and soul, soul, marrow, sap, See - nub (def. 3). nude, adj. 1. naked, stark-naked, Brit, starkers, naked as the day one was born, Fr. tout nu; bare, SI. bare-ass, exposed, Inf. in the buff, Inf. in the altogether, Inf. in one's birthday suit, SI. in the raw, SI. raw; unclothed, undraped, undressed, unappareled, unclad, uncovered, unattired, disrobed, divested, without a stitch, with nothing on, Fr. au naturel.
2. plain, unadorned, undecorated, unornamented, unembellished, unarrayed, undecked.

-n. 3. the nude state of nature, Inf. the buff, Inf. the altogether, Inf. birthday suit, SI. the raw.

nudge, v. 1. elbow, poke, jog, jab, dig, prod; bump, push, jostle; touch, kick, prompt. -n. 2. elbow, elbow in the ribs, prod, poke, jab, dig; push, bump, jostle; kick, prompt,

nudist, n. sunworshipper; Dial, bankwalker, Inf. skinnydipper; (in ancient India) gymnosophist, Rare. nudifier.

nudity, n. nakedness, bareness, undress, the state of undress, state of nature, the natural state, nature's state, nature's garb, natural garb, bare skin; the nude, Inf. the buff, Inf the altogether, Inf. birthday suit, SI. the raw.

nugatory, adj. 1. worthless, valueless, meritless, inutile, inadequate, unserviceable, impracticable, inefficient, inoperative; frivolous, trivial, trifling, piddling, picayune, niggling, finicking; inessential, insignificant, inconsequential, unimportant, superfluous, petty, superficial, shallow; baseless, groundless, insubstantial, fragile, frail; empty, idle, inane, paltry, Dial. footy; trashy, shabby, Inf. cheesy, sleazy, flimsy, jerry-built, U.S. SI. cottonpicking, not worth a straw; showy, gaudy, glittering, tinsel.