nibbed

7.8

With a pointed metal tip for writing like a fountain pen

adjective
/nɪbd/

: con punta

My arms shaking, I struggled to lift up the board, so unsure of myself that I immediately put it back down on my lap and watched my feeble hand grip that golden-nibbed, black-ink-dribbling implement, to add after that word a final fetal loop, a dot below the loop, to make it:

Examples

Takes out his gold-nibbed, platinum-cased Cross fountain pen, the pen his publishers gave him to mark the publication of the ten millionth copy of the groundbreaking, genre-busting The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

Fiction book (2001)
Work well done, she thought, taking up a fine-nibbed pen, signing Cat with a flourish.

Fiction book (1996)
She enjoyed writing letters with her fine-nibbed pen, as it created beautiful lines.
Artists often prefer double-nibbed markers for creating detailed illustrations.
He selected a gold-nibbed fountain pen to sign his name on the award certificate.

Surface Forms

nibbed positive

Morphology

nibbed = nib (transparent) = nib + ed

Standard adjectival/past-participle formation from the noun 'nib' with -ed indicating 'having' or 'provided with' a nib; the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word nibbed comes from nib, an old word for a little 'beak' or 'nose', because a pen's nib looks like a small beak that makes a line on the page. So a nibbed pen is one that has that small pointed tip, which is why we say 'broad-nibbed' or 'fine-nibbed' to show the kind of point.