Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A beak of a bird.
- n. A nose; a snout.
- n. A projecting part, especially a nib.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The bill or beak of a bird; also, the snout or muzzle of a beast.
- n. The nose: as, a lang neb; a sharp neb.
- n. The face.
- n. The tip end of anything; a sharp point: as, the neb of a lancet or knife. See nib.
- n. The nib of a pen. See nib.
- n. An abbreviation of Nebraska.
Wiktionary
- n. now dialectal A bird's beak or bill.
- n. obsolete A person's mouth.
- n. now dialectal A person's nose.
- n. now dialectal The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
- n. now dialectal A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
- n. now dialectal A nib, as of a pen.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. horny projecting mouth of a bird
- n. a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
Etymologies
- Old English nebb ("beak, nose, face"), from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Danish næb, Dutch neb, German Schnabel, Old Norse nef, Swedish näbb, Swedish regional näv. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is only rarely, and at a later period, that prophecy is called nebû'ah, a cognate of nabî '; more ordinarily we find hazôn, vision, or word of God, oracle”
“The figure is standing on a basket called a neb, which in ancient Egyptian iconography signifies a ruler or deity.”
“The current thinking on Neanderthal physiology includes a neb which is capable of a large throughput, such as that.”
“Rebecca arrives in less than a minute and asks the nurses to get a racemic epinephrine neb.”
“I order a portable chest X-ray and an albuterol neb.”
“He had created an empathy with that part of his native county's audience, "one of us" who had given the stuffed shirts and jazz-hatters down south "a bloodied neb", metaphorically at least.”
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“Some cities — Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis — shrank to one-half or less of their former size. neb Says:”
“Al – but we needed to invade Iraq, right? neb Says:”
“Now he plays soccer, baseball and football, knows his peak number, when he needs the neb, and when the inhaler will do.”
“The Roman Pontiff, with his absurd claims to infallibility and universal rule, should keep his neb out of our national life.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘neb’.
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There is no place like Nebraska
Place names, landmarks, famous residents, "-isms," etc.
Nebraska, nebraksa, Lincoln, Omaha, Grand Island, Kearney, Carhenge, Pioneer Village, Valentine, husker, cornhusker, There is no place... and 126 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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The Nose Knows
Being Nosy.
nosethril, nostril, nebby, nasal, rhinoplasty, pug, button, Roman, turned-up, Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gonzo and 54 more...
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To a point
to the point
dot, betoken, cusp, nib, neb, nadir, bespeak, eutectic, punctilio, fulcrum, stretch a point, make a point and 69 more...
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Words Surprisingly Accepted by Scrabb...
Official Scrabble for the iPhone.
neb, rared, ae, begum, biner, pignut, nogs, qua, za, diss, qi
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Are you from Pennsylvania?
List contains answers to the question: Are you from PA?
gum band, stillers, pahrits, sticker bush, crick, yinz, yoose, ohia, jumbo, knows the differe..., i can pronounce w..., sammich and 41 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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That's Not a Banana
That's my nose!
nose, beak, bazooka, schnozz, honker, bugle, sneezer, old factory, schnozzola, proboscis, whiffer, trunk and 16 more...
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Diet
scamp, plucky, countenance, toddle, wither, jade, bobbish, obtuse, fatuity, puisne, insipid, palpable and 77 more...
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Nest Words
structured and spacious words - literally and figuratively
nest, niche, nidification, nido, nestle, nye, patulous, inquiline, neb, coleoptera, aerie, nidicolous and 39 more...
Tweets
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dontcry In Pittsburgh, the slang term for someone who is nosey is "nebby" or a "neb-nose." Jan 17, 2010
chained_bear "'This is Angus Walter Edwin Murray Carmichael,' Jamie answered for him, ruffling the silky blond hair. 'Maggie's eldest son, and most commonly known as Wally.'
'We call him Snot-rag,' a small red-haired girl standing by my knee informed me. ''Cause his neb is always clotted wi' gook.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (NY: Dell, 1994), 567 Jan 17, 2010
bilby Scots - nose. Dec 6, 2007