US /nɛb/ UK /nɛb/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a bird's beak, or the nose or mouth (dialectal)

    The crow wiped its neb against the fence post.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a bird's beak, or the nose... beakbillnosesnoutnib
Word family
Related forms nibnibble

Etymology

From Old English nebb ('beak, nose, face'), from Proto-Germanic *nabja-; doublet of nib.

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