subs. (old cant).1. The neck.B. E. (c. 1696); BAILEY (1728); GROSE (1785); MATSELL (1859).
3. (old cant).A husband.
Verb. (old cant).To hang: see LADDER.
c. 1712. Budg and Snudg Song [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 32]. When that he hath NUBBED us.
1743. FIELDING, Jonathan Wild, IV. ii. I am committed for the filing lay, man, and we shall be both NUBBED together.