Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person in authority, especially one who is self-important. Used with his or her:
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nonsensical title: used in the phrase ‘his royal nibs.’
- noun A nonsensical title: used in the phrase “his royal nibs.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural See his nibs under
nib , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, UK An
important orself-important person. - noun slang, UK, dated, 19th Century Self.
- noun Plural form of
nib .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They look beeyootiful, and the nibs are a great addition to cut the sweetness!
Christmas Baking III: Korova Cookies with Cocoa Nib Mandy 2008
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The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate.
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It was while Tillie was trying out various pen points called nibs that she made the remark about the ballpoint pen being the biggest single factor in the decline of Western Civilization.
The View from Saturday E. L. Konigsburg 1996
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A tool called a winnower then cracks and discards the husks, and the beans are ground into small bits called nibs.
News 2012
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The broken bits, called nibs, are ground fine between the granite stones of two refurbished molinos.
News & Politics 2010
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The broken bits, called nibs, are ground fine between the granite stones of two refurbished molinos.
News & Politics Edward Behr 2010
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The broken bits, called nibs, are ground fine between the granite stones of two refurbished molinos.
News & Politics 2010
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The broken bits, called nibs, are ground fine between the granite stones of two refurbished molinos.
News & Politics 2010
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The broken bits, called nibs, are ground fine between the granite stones of two refurbished molinos.
News & Politics 2010
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The links, called "nibs," are stored in the software's database and presented to viewers in a timeline, or "nibstream," tied to the video.
Nibipedia - Wikipedia Meets YouTube Mr. Byrne 2008
oroboros commented on the word nibs
One of Peter Pan's lost boys.
August 9, 2009