nibbling
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɪblɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɪb(ə)lɪŋ/
(one pronunciation)Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
- Homophone: nibling (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: nib‧bling
Noun
editnibbling (countable and uncountable, plural nibblings)
- The act or sound of one who nibbles.
- 1941, Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts:
- Minute nibblings and rustlings broke the silence.
- A small adjustment or encroachment.
- 1821, The British Prose Writers: Gray's letters, page 26:
- I send you back the two last sheets, because you bid me. I reserve my nibblings and minutiae for another day.
- 1921, John Dewey, China, Japan, and the USA:
- Meantime the penetration of Shantung by means of railway discrimination, railway military guards, continual nibblings here and there, will be going on.
- A child of one's sibling.
Verb
editnibbling
- present participle and gerund of nibble
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