nibbling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɪblɪŋ/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɪb(ə)lɪŋ/
(one pronunciation)Audio (GA) (file) - Homophone: nibling (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: nib‧bling
Noun[edit]
nibbling (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.
- 1941, Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
- 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.
- 1821, The British Prose Writers: Gray's letters (page 26)
Verb[edit]
nibbling
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