nibbling

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verb bite, pick at

noun. consuming

adjective. browsing

1650s, "act of nibbling," from nibble (v.). As "a small bite," from 1838.

At last the Rougons were nibbling at the pleasures of the wealthy!

All night long they travel, nibbling at their hard corn-bread.

This nibbling policy is all very well, but it doesn't suit cavalry.

Nibbling pensively at her cinnamon toast, Palla pondered this.

"I must make this division equal," and he kept on nibbling at the cheese.

Four guns are nibbling at the edge of the village with their shells.

Here we are rolling in riches while he may be nibbling at hunger's table.'

The fear and uncertainty were with him again—nagging, nibbling, gnawing at his reason.

He was nibbling a morsel of totopo, which he, like us, could hardly swallow.

He's very fond of nibbling paper, and it doesn't hurt him, for he doesn't eat it.