stub
noun
a short projecting part.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Now’s he gone and sneaked off where these folks will stub their toes agin him; I’m ’sprised that the Queen didn’t hammer a little sense into his head.”
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis