Crossword clues for nibs
nibs
- Quill tips
- Quill pen points
- His ___, the boss
- His ___ (big shot)
- Calligrapher's points
- Writers' points
- Writer's tips
- Twizzlers pieces
- Twizzlers licorice brand
- Twizzlers ___ (bite-size cherry-flavored licorice)
- Tips of quills
- Tips of pens
- They're put to paper
- They may be fine points
- Sharpened points of quill pens
- Quill parts
- Points for writers
- Old-fashioned pen points
- Old pen parts
- Metal pen-points
- Licorice brand from Twizzlers
- Ink spots?
- Ink deliverers
- His Royal ___
- His ___, V. I. P
- His ___ (self-important sort)
- His ___ (mock-formal title)
- Ends of pens
- Crushed cacao beans used to make chocolate
- Coffee beans
- Calligraphers' pen points
- Calligrapher's assortment
- Bits of roasted cocoa beans
- Ballpoint points
- Ironic title is never initially claimed by Scottish football team
- Penpoints
- Bird beaks
- Pointed ends
- Tool points
- His ___ (self-important man)
- Pen points
- Quill points
- Points put on paper
- Writing points
- Beaks
- Bills
- Ballpoint tips
- His ___, the V.I.P.
- His ___ (the boss)
- His ___, the bigwig
- Pens' business ends
- V.I.P., with "his"
- His ___ (personage)
- His ___, the V.I.P
- His ___ (the nabob)
- Wrong to be upset about British writers
- Writers putting Nightingale in Berkeley Square originally
- Left in wild seeking rescue
- Bills writers run up in bars on vacation
- Back home from what accommodates those cautioned VIPs
- Birds' bills
- Calligrapher's supply
- Pen tips
- Calligrapher's fine points?
- Pen parts
- Writing tips
- Pen ends
- Points for writers?
- Ink dispensers
- His __: big shot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
especially in His Nibs "boss, employer, self-important person," 1821, of unknown origin; perhaps a variant of nob "person of high position."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (plural of nib English) Etymology 2
n. 1 (context slang UK English) An important or self-important person. 2 (context slang UK dated 19th Century English) Self. 3 (context cribbage English) a jack turned up by the dealer. (see also nob)
Wikipedia
NIBS or Nibs may refer to:
- National Institute of Building Sciences
- Network of International Business Schools
- Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, noninvasive forms of neurostimulation
- Non-invasive backscattering
- Nib (pen)
- Cacao nibs, pieces of roasted cocoa bean, generally ground into powder, but also inserted into chocolate bars to give additional "crunch"
- Nibs, one of the Lost Boys in the Peter Pan universe
- A miniature variety of Twizzlers candy
Usage examples of "nibs".
Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes.
As the pirates advanced, the quick eye of Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out.
Now Nibs rose from the ground, and the others thought that his staring eyes still saw the wolves.
All looked at him in wonder, save Nibs, who fortunately looked at Wendy.
You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella.
Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out.
It is amusing to stand and watch the continuous stream of nibs rushing down, like hail in a storm, into the screw conveyor.
The cost of fine grinding is considerable, for whilst the first breaking down of the cacao nibs and sugar crystals is comparatively easy, it is found that as the particles of chocolate get finer the cost of further reduction increases by leaps and bounds.
Horn pens, tortoise-shell pens, nibs of diamond or ruby imbedded in tortoise shell, nibs of ruby set in fine gold, nibs of rhodium and of iridium imbedded in gold,-- all have been adopted at different times, but most of them have been found too costly for general adoption.
Bramah patented quill nibs made by splitting quills and cutting the semicylinders into sections which were shaped into pens and adapted to be placed in a holder.
These were, perhaps, the first nibs, the progenitors of a host of steel, gold, and other pens.
Hawkins and Mordan, in 1823, made nibs of horn and tortoise shell, instead of quill.
English patent, 1831, was designed to present the nibs in the right direction while preserving the customary positions of the pen and hand.
The pens we used had detachable nibs and it was necessary to dip your nib into the ink-well every six or seven seconds when you were writing.
The nibs we used were very fragile and most boys kept a supply of new ones in a small box in their trouser pockets.