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nebber | ebber |

As an adverb nebber

is .

As an adjective ebber is

(ebb).

nebber

English

A person who is truly committed to NEBB - the National Environmental Balancing Bureau

Adverb

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Unknown, title=Whig Against Tory, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You no trudge so--you nebber get tere. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1867, author=Lydia Maria Francis Child, title=A Romance of the Republic, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Yer see, Missis," said Tom, with a sly look, "dey tinks de niggers don't none ob 'em wants dare freedom, so dey nebber totes 'em whar it be." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Charles Waddell Chesnutt, title=The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I 'spec's ter haf ter suppo't 'im w'en I fin' 'im, fer he nebber would work 'less'n he had ter. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues, title=Citizen Bird, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=The Maid-At-Arms, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Alice Hegan Rice, title=Sandy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Dey calls it 'Who'd 'a' Thought It,' 'ca'se you nebber would 'a' thought of puttin' a house dere. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Alice Hegan Rice, title=Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I done worked on lizards in de laigs, but I nebber had no 'casion to treat a cricket in de laig. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=O. Henry, title=Rolling Stones, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use." }}

    ebber

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (ebb)

    • Anagrams

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    ebb

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The receding movement of the tide.
    • The boats will go out on the ebb .
  • * (rfdate) Shelley
    • Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!
  • A gradual decline.
  • * (rfdate) Roscommon
    • Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
  • A low state; a state of depression.
  • * (rfdate) Dryden
    • Painting was then at its lowest ebb .
  • * 2002 , (Joyce Carol Oates), The New Yorker , 22 & 29 April
    • A "lowest ebb'" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "' ebb " might easily have lasted for years.
  • A European bunting, .

    • Derived terms

    * ebb and flow * ebb tide

    Antonyms

    * flood * flow

    Related terms

    * tide

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to flow back or recede
    • The tides ebbed at noon .
  • to fall away or decline
    • The dying man's strength ebbed away .
  • to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
  • To cause to flow back.
    • (Ford)

    Synonyms

    ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out, reflux, wane

    Adjective

    (er)
  • low, shallow
    • The water there is otherwise very low and ebb . (Holland)
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