neb

¹ American  

[neb] / nɛb /

noun

Scot.

1. a bill or beak, as of a bird.

2. the nose, especially of an animal.

3. the tip or pointed end of anything.

4. the nib of a pen.

5. Obsolete. a person's mouth.

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Neb. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Nebraska.

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neb ¹ British  

/ nɛb /

noun

1. the peak of a cap

2. the beak of a bird or the nose or snout of an animal

3. a person's mouth or nose

4. the projecting part or end of anything

5. 1. a peak, esp in N England

   2. a prominent gritstone overhang

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NEB ² British  

abbreviation

1. New English Bible

2. (the former) National Enterprise Board

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Etymology

Origin of neb

before 900; Middle English nebbe, Old English nebb, cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German nebbe, Old Norse nef. See nib

Example Sentences

Kennedy sprinkles in more idiomatic vocabulary — geg, neb, snatter, wheeker, pokes, marleys — to make her characters’ exchanges ring true.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

Here you can find neb noses and gum bands and people eating chipped ham.

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2014

Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I make one, neb Rekh? Out of real gold?”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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