neb

• nib

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.

• IPA^(key): /nɛb/
• Rhymes: -ɛb

neb (plural nebs)

1. (now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
2. (obsolete) A person's mouth.
3. (now dialectal) A person's nose.
4. (now dialectal) The peak of a flat cap.
5. (now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
6. (now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
   • 1658, In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides, which sometimes lye whole, when the Oak is sproated two handfuls. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 183)
7. (now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.

• nebby (Geordie)

• nib
• nipple

• neb in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “neb” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

• Ben, EbN, NbE, ben

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛp]
• Rhymes: -ɛp

neb

1. (archaic) or
2. (literary) because, as, since

• protože
• jelikož
• poněvadž
• neboť

• aneb

neb

1. you two (second person dual)
2. your (second person dual)

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)