Nib vs Nob - What's the difference?
nib | nob |
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.
(slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
:: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth
The head.
(cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
(slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.
To hit in the head
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)- 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) ----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)- The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
Etymology 2
(en)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- One for his nob .