Nib vs Fib - What's the difference?
nib | fib |
The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
* Sir Thomas Browne
One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
The shaft of a wagon.
(informal) A , especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
* Henry James
To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
As nouns the difference between nib and fib
is that nib is the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper while fib is (informal) a , especially one that is more or less inconsequential or fib can be (medicine|informal) short form of fibula.As a verb fib is
to lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.nib
English
Noun
(en noun)- Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib , pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
- the little nib or fructifying principle
Derived terms
* denibAnagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) ----fib
English
Etymology 1
Probably from fable''; compare ''fibble-fabble (nonsense).Noun
(en noun)- They are very serious; they don't tell fibs .