Meaning

4 senses
  1. Someone who nibbles (in various senses).

  2. A tool for cutting sheet metal.

  3. A fish of the sea chub subfamily Girellinae.

  4. (historical)A program for copying floppy disks at a low level (typically one bit at a time) to circumvent protection systems.

More definitions
  • a biter who takes dainty repeated bites

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Ziri is using the sheet metal nibbler to cut the sheet metal.

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  2. He eats like a bird. He's a nibbler.

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  3. She eats like a bird. She's a nibbler.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From nibble + -er.

From nibble + -er.

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Forms

plural: nibblers
Singularnibbler
Pluralnibblers

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatednibble

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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