Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An iron-headed golf club with the face slanted at a greater angle than any other iron except a wedge; a nine iron.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of club used in the game of golf, having a dumpy cup-shaped iron head. It is used to jerk the ball out of sand, ruts, rough ground, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. golf (dated) A metal headed golf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a sand iron or wedge in a modern set of clubs
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an iron with considerable loft
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“So the Minister realized he was bunkered and had to fall back on his niblick -- in other words confess his error to the House.”
“For instance, the niblick is a short club for taking the ball out of difficult positions ( "lies") as when the latter gets into long grass, sand or some other awkward kind of obstruction.”
“If the thing was to be done at all," observes the Oldest Member, approvingly, "it was unquestionably a niblick shot.”
The Wall Street Journal: What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
“She eventually snaps and lets him have it in the head with her niblick.”
The Wall Street Journal: What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
“The various rules governing who can and can't hoist their mashie niblick around the famous Old Course – let alone who can sip a reviving Gin and It in the clubhouse – are rather too byzantine for speedy summary and perhaps in any case beyond the understanding of fluffy-headed ladies.”
The Guardian: Golf's bogey men belong to another age | Alex Clark
“Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.”
The Huffington Post: Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold
“Tiger Woods remains in the wilderness not because of his epic, priapic misadventures, but because he can't seem to get the old niblick working.”
The Wall Street Journal: Battered and Bruised, It's Better to Lose
“And, hey Tiger, we all know your wife beat the poop out of you with a mashie niblick.”
“You DO know a “niblick” is a 9-iron and not gibberish, right?”
“This story did not propose the only solution, niblick, just one that worked for the heroine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘niblick’.
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
Words for the diehard intermediate and advanced spellers
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Irony
A list about iron, irons, and irony.
iron, irons, irony, Jeremy Irons, ferritin, ferruginous duck, ferruginous, ironing, hematite, limonite, magnetite, taconite and 144 more...
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golf related words
everything golf
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Logolepsy
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Golf Clubs
Mostly the older and odder-named clubs employed to baff, and sclaff, and otherwise underclub golf balls.
juke-neckit, baffy, baffy-spoon, brassy, niblick, bulger, bulger-driver, socket-club, lofting-iron, mashie, cleik, driving-cleik and 31 more...
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Golf Words
I loathe golf, but I love the olde fashioned names for the clubs.
playclub, brassie, spoon, cleek, baffy, mashie, niblick, divot, chilly-dip, the yips, skull, texas wedge and 41 more...
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sionnach's Words
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Tweets
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knitandpurl "Joan Benbow, driving ambitiously, had watched her ball land, leap forward in a series of diminishing arcs, and come to rest in Hibbett's Hole. (Hibbett was a Victorian golfer, one of John Company's colonels, who died in harness, his enlarged spleen bursting almost simultaneously with a good niblick in the bunker now called after him.)"
Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater, p 94 of the Orkney Edition hardcover Nov 23, 2011