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

Word History and Origins

Origin of nibbler¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg