neb

Example Sentences

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Kennedy sprinkles in more idiomatic vocabulary — geg, neb, snatter, wheeker, pokes, marleys — to make her characters’ exchanges ring true.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

Here you can find neb noses and gum bands and people eating chipped ham.

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2014

Money Talks Yam-nosed, publicity-wise Jimmy Durante let it be known that he was insuring his neb for $50,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Observed Phillips of his neb: "I am not ashamed."

From Time Magazine Archive

“I crave pardon; neb Goldsmith, for coming late. I could not help it. I—I carried an offering to my father’s tomb.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw