"nibs" meaning in English

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      "word": "her nibs"
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          "ref": "1919, Robert Nichols, “The Secret”, in The Century, page 734:",
          "text": "Vera, you are a gleam of brilliant modernity in our dim old cave of antiques — and their nibs, our ancestors.\" Peter waved disrespectfully to the portrait",
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          "ref": "1920, Oreola Williams Haskell with Ida Husted Harper, Banner bearers: tales of the suffrage campaigns, page 345:",
          "text": "Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody.",
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          "ref": "1983 June 5, “OFFSTAGE”, in Chicago Tribune:",
          "text": "You may also know that, during intermission, Paul and Linda were summoned to a room behind the royal box for a private chat with her nibs.",
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          "ref": "2004, Michael Arnold, A game with dice, page 59:",
          "text": "\"Your Nibs,\" I panted, \"I am sent by the machine gunner man to tell you that ... \"Please don't call me Your Nibs, and knock before you come in next time,",
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        "An important or self-important person."
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        "(slang, UK, after possessive pronoun) An important or self-important person."
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        "(slang, UK, dated, 19th century, after possessive pronoun) Self."
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          "ref": "1920, Oreola Williams Haskell with Ida Husted Harper, Banner bearers: tales of the suffrage campaigns, page 345:",
          "text": "Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody.",
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          "text": "You may also know that, during intermission, Paul and Linda were summoned to a room behind the royal box for a private chat with her nibs.",
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        "(slang, UK, after possessive pronoun) An important or self-important person."
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