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Nib vs Nob - What's the difference?

nib | nob |

As nouns the difference between nib and nob

is that nib is the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper while nob is a wealthy or influential person; a toff.

As a verb nob is

{{cx|informal|lang=en}} To hit in the head.

As a proper noun Nob is

a place, north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants were massacred by Saul.

nib

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • 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 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
    • the little nib or fructifying principle
  • One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  • The shaft of a wagon.

    • Derived terms

    * denib

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    nob

    English

    Etymology 1

    * From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful) * From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
    • The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
  • :: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The head.
    • Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
  • (cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
    • One for his nob .
  • (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.

    • Verb

  • To hit in the head

    • Anagrams

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