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
- : 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.
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