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Nibs vs Nib - What's the difference?

nibs | nib |

As nouns the difference between nibs and nib

is that nibs is or nibs can be (slang|uk) an important or self-important person while nib is the tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.

nibs

English

Etymology 1

See nib

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (nibs)
  • (slang, UK) An important or self-important person.
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  • Self.
    • See also
    * himself

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    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

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