nibbler
Americannoun
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a person or thing that nibbles.
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any of several fishes of the family Girellidae, inhabiting shallow coastal waters on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, having thin, incisorlike teeth.
noun
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a person, animal, or thing that nibbles
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engineering a tool that cuts sheet material by a series of small rapidly reciprocating cuts
Etymology
Origin of nibbler
Example Sentences
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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
There never was a boy so excited as he when the scarlet nibbler flew into the shrubbery above; he gasped with glee.
From Truxton King A Story of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr
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