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Word entry · 3 letters

nib

Best crossword clue

"Pen tip"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /nɪb/Part of speech nounSorted binStarts with NEnds with B1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. horny projecting mouth of a bird

Word origin

From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Ford, whose often acid nib belied a deep love of all things Iberian, is one of 20 British authors profiled in a new Spanish book[…].
  • the little nib or fructifying principle

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