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nibs

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nibs  (nbz)
n. Informal
A person in authority, especially one who is self-important. Used with his or her: His nibs says we must do it.

[Perhaps alteration of nob.]

nibs [nɪbz]
pl n
his nibs Slang a mock title used of someone in authority
[of unknown origin]
Translations
nibs [nɪbz] N his nibssu señoría
nibs
n (hum inf) his nibsder hohe Herr (hum), → Seine Herrlichkeit (hum inf)


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You had to push your nib with the finger-nail so as to get the point of it over your opponent's, while he manoeuvred to prevent this and to get the point of his nib over the back of yours; when this result was achieved you breathed on the ball of your thumb, pressed it hard on the two nibs, and if you were able then to lift them without dropping either, both nibs became yours.
"All I remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, `Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own
The countenances of Cynthia and Nibs were suddenly petrified into a stern and forbidding expression.
 
 
 
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