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

Anagrams

• binlike, blinkie