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neb

noun
/nɛb/

Etymology

From Middle English neb, from Old English nebb (“beak, nose, face”), from Proto-Germanic *nabją (“beak, nose”). Cognate with Danish næb, Dutch neb, German Schnabel, Old Norse nef, Swedish näbb, Swedish regional näv.

  1. inherited from *nabją✻ — “beak, nose”
  2. inherited from nebb — “beak, nose, face”
  3. inherited from neb

Definitions

  1. A bird's beak.

  2. A person's mouth.

  3. A person's nose.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. The peak of a flat cap.

    2. The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.

    3. A projecting extremity

      A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.

      • In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides, which sometimes lye whole, when the Oak is sproated two handfuls.

    4. A nib, as of a pen.

    5. Initialism of North Equatorial Band.

    6. Initialism of National Enterprise Board.

    7. Initialism of New English Bible.

    8. Abbreviation of Nebraska.

The neighborhood

Derived

nebby, nebbie

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for neb. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA