Adjective: nibby
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more nibby |
| Superlative | most nibby |
Sample Sentences
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The whole of these silks have many faults: they are very nibby, which is principally owing to the water in which the cocoons are placed in order to have the fibre drawn from them not being of a proper temperature; […] [1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary..., page 677:]
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Adding nibs as a scrubbing agent to soap is easy and creates a luxurious experience. I use nibby soap to scrub stubborn soil from my hands. Nibs can be scratchy in soap, so this may not be best for delicate areas. [2024, Raven Hanna, One Cacao Tree, page 130:]
Adjectives inflected like nibby
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
nib + -y