nibble

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something).

   “The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.”

2. fiil To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.

   “My hand, as it hangs down, thou nibblest tenderly, […]”

3. fiil To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
4. fiil To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.

   “Before he realized it, he had nibbled his way through a whole bag of potato chips.”

5. fiil Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.

   “The bases of the smaller trees were nibbled bare by rabbits, […]”

6. fiil Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small bites.

   “The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]”

7. fiil To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
8. fiil To fidget or play with (something), especially with the fingers or hands.

   “Ellen stood dumb and motionless, looking steadfastly down at the hem of her green jerkin, which she was nibbling with both her hands.”

9. fiil To catch (someone); to nab.

   “[T]he Roague has ſpied me novv, hee nibled me finely once too; […]”

10. fiil To steal (something); to pilfer.
11. fiil Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites.

    “The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce.”

12. fiil To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.

    “He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.”

13. fiil Chiefly followed by at: to show slight interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.

    “[W]hy mouſe, thy minde is nibbling at ſomething, vvhats iſt, vvhat lyes vpon thy Stomach?”

14. fiil Followed by away at: to reduce or use up gradually; to eat.

    “A report out this week from the National Consumer Law Center lays out a host of ways in which banks nibble away at jobless benefits with fees the center called "junk."”

15. fiil Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.
16. fiil Synonym of tramline (“of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels”).
17. fiil To fidget or play, especially with the fingers or hands.
18. fiil Chiefly followed by at: to make insignificant complaints; to carp, to cavil, to find fault.

    “Nay more, have not some of their devoted Schollers begun, I need to saw to nibble, but openly to argue against the Kings Supremacie?”

19. fiil To engage in sexual intercourse.

    “Hart I vvould giue but too much money to be nibling vvith that vvench, […]”

20. isim An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.

    “[H]e would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.”

21. isim A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
22. isim An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.

    “Yo'r sheep will be a' folded, a reckon, Measter Pratt, for there'll ne'er be a nibble o' grass to be seen this two month, according to my reading; […]”

23. isim A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
24. isim Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage.

    “On the northern slopes of the light-earthed hills the moss had come over the herbage, and the sweet nibble of the sheep was souring.”

25. isim A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.

    “I own several abaci and two books on how to use them, but they all have four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity.”