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nibbler

/nib-ler/US // ˈnɪb lər //UK // (ˈnɪblə) //

啃咬者,啃食者,蚕食者,啃咬机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Examples

  • He has needed elbow surgery, lacked confidence in his stuff at times and been a nibbler.

  • He is never bigger than Nibbler the House Mouse and often is much smaller.

  • The biscuit-nibbler selected a fresh dainty from the counter, and Wingate abstractedly walked to the window and rubbed the glass.

  • This redoubtable nibbler, which is often a foot in length, never betrays itself; it only works within.

  • And when the Mice came in haste at dawn, Bread-nibbler stood up first, enraged at his son's death, and thus he spoke.

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