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nibbler

[ nib-ler ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that nibbles.
  2. any of several fishes of the family Girellidae, inhabiting shallow coastal waters on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, having thin, incisorlike teeth.


ˈnibbler

/ ˈnɪblə /

noun

  1. a person, animal, or thing that nibbles
  2. engineering a tool that cuts sheet material by a series of small rapidly reciprocating cuts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nibbler1

First recorded in 1590–1600; nibble + -er 1
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Example Sentences

He has needed elbow surgery, lacked confidence in his stuff at times and been a nibbler.

He is never bigger than Nibbler the House Mouse and often is much smaller.

The biscuit-nibbler selected a fresh dainty from the counter, and Wingate abstractedly walked to the window and rubbed the glass.

This redoubtable nibbler, which is often a foot in length, never betrays itself; it only works within.

And when the Mice came in haste at dawn, Bread-nibbler stood up first, enraged at his son's death, and thus he spoke.

But the Venetian shopkeepers are not clever: they have not the sense to leave the nibbler alone.

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