nibbler

[ nib-ler ]

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.

Origin of nibbler

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; nibble + -er1

Words Nearby nibbler

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How to use nibbler in a sentence

  • But the Venetian shopkeepers are not clever: they have not the sense to leave the nibbler alone.

British Dictionary definitions for nibbler

nibbler

/ (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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