niblike

English

Etymology 1

nib +‎ -like

Adjective

niblike (comparative more niblike, superlative most niblike)

  1. 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

nibs +‎ -like

Adjective

niblike (comparative more niblike, superlative most niblike)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Gentlemanly.
    • 1878, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, page 201:
      All my togs were so niblike and splash
References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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