nibbler
a person or thing that nibbles.
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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How to use nibbler in a sentence
He has needed elbow surgery, lacked confidence in his stuff at times and been a nibbler.
Should the Nationals be worried about their Big Three starters? Stay tuned. | Thomas M. Boswell | April 15, 2021 | Washington PostHe is never bigger than nibbler the House Mouse and often is much smaller.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children | Thornton W. BurgessThe biscuit-nibbler selected a fresh dainty from the counter, and Wingate abstractedly walked to the window and rubbed the glass.
A First Family of Tasajara | Bret HarteThis redoubtable nibbler, which is often a foot in length, never betrays itself; it only works within.
The Bird | Jules MicheletAnd when the Mice came in haste at dawn, Bread-nibbler stood up first, enraged at his son's death, and thus he spoke.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Homer and Hesiod
But the Venetian shopkeepers are not clever: they have not the sense to leave the nibbler alone.
A Wanderer in Venice | E.V. Lucas
British Dictionary definitions for nibbler
/ (ˈnɪblə) /
a person, animal, or thing that nibbles
engineering a tool that cuts sheet material by a series of small rapidly reciprocating cuts
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