nibbler

American  

[nib-ler] / ˈnɪb lər /

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.

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nibbler British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of nibbler

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

Example Sentences

Some of that was Snell, a notorious nibbler, missing his spots.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2022

And that is to a team already employing Bryce Harper, who on Monday night made a queasy nibbler out of Matt Harvey, with his fastball approaching 100 miles an hour.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2015

Here, on a damp nibbler, he rode his luck: bowled off a Jamie Harrison no-ball in single figures and then dropped at slip by Gordon Muchall on 11.

From The Guardian • May 31, 2012

ConSova, based in Lakewood, Colorado, is a nibbler that has been working on this problem since 2003.

From Inc • Dec. 8, 2010

Who told old nibbler to go to sleep safe and sound with the lily roots, And then in the first warm days of April—out to the sun with the greening shoots?

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss