niblike
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]niblike (comparative more niblike, superlative most niblike)
- Resembling or characteristic of the nib of a pen.
- 1920, Bulletin, numbers 235-236, page 354:
- Tubular awls with niblike points (like a pen point) and made from bird bones or the leg bones of certain small mammals
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]niblike (comparative more niblike, superlative most niblike)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Gentlemanly.
- 1878, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, page 201:
- All my togs were so niblike and splash
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary