nibbling 的 3 个定义
nib·bled, nib·bling.
- to bite off small bits.
- to eat or chew in small bites: Give him a graham cracker to nibble on.
- to bite, eat, or chew gently and in small amounts: She was so upset she could only nibble at her food.
nib·bled, nib·bling.
- to bite off small bits of.
- to eat by biting off small pieces.
- to bite in small bits: He nibbled each morsel with great deliberation.
- a small morsel or bit: Each nibble was eaten with the air of an epicure.
- an act or instance of nibbling.
- a response by a fish to bait on a fishing line.
- any preliminary positive response or reaction.
nibbling 近义词
bite, pick at
更多nibbling例句
- It was a culture nibbling on the genial jingoism of Norman Vincent Peale and being made somewhat uncomfortable by Adlai Stevenson.
- This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.
- The man who wrote about hulking linebackers nibbling melon in the Texas dusk.
- In the Cavour high school in central Rome, mice run through the halls, nibbling on open wiring and nesting in the lockers.
- The more perfectly the star in question feeds the pre-existing stereotype of foie gras-nibbling limousine liberalism, the better.
- But Brindle tarried behind and foraged for her supper by nibbling the grass from the overgrown dooryard.
- Kano pensively lifted a plum upon the point of a toothpick and began nibbling at its wrinkled skin.
- He kept on pulling at one twig after another with his trunk, nibbling and wasting everything.
- "Master Colombaik feared you had been nibbling the goods on the way," one of the young tanners observed with a laugh.
- A slight greeting on the ends of her lips, some hurried words, and she returned to the noble battalion nibbling vigorously away.