different between nib vs nig

English

Alternative forms

• knib (obsolete)

Etymology

From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

nib (plural nibs)

1. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.

2. The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
3. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
4. A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
5. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus

     the little nib or fructifying principle

6. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
7. The shaft of a wagon.

Synonyms

• (handle projecting from a scythe snath): thole

Derived terms

• denib

Translations

Verb

nib (third-person singular simple present nibs, present participle nibbing, simple past and past participle nibbed)

1. (transitive) To fit (a pen) with a nib.

Anagrams

• BNI, NBI, bin, ibn

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of niggard. Unrelated to nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (archaic) niggard

Etymology 2

Clipping of nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) nigger
   • 1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War

     In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

Verb

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

1. (Internet slang, ethnic slur) to behave as a stereotypical black person

Anagrams

• -ing, -ïng, GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, ing

Volapük

Noun

nig (nominative plural nigs)

1. ink

Declension

Derived terms

• nigiär

Yapese

Noun

nig

1. fish