Crossword clues for nibbling
nibbling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nibble \Nib"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nibbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Nibbling.] [Cf. Nip.] To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or sound of one who nibbles. 2 A small adjustment or encroachment. vb. (present participle of nibble English)
Usage examples of "nibbling".
They wandered along a path that ran parallel to the Moscow River, talking of American literature at first, then nibbling at the edge of matters that were more personal.
Elizabet whispered to Ebby as the Director worked the room, chatting up the officers nibbling on canapes and drinking Champagne.
We just created our own simulated Spindle, complete with Blue Hell gambling casino, and we sat there with Sergei, swilling down icy vodka and nibbling pretzels and smoked fish.
The two boys divided the fruit, nipping each berry between fingertips by its short green stem and nibbling it away.
One of the pigs was nibbling away industriously at one of their voodoo dolls, or whatever they were, and in the foreground was one of the little figures itself, washed clean of ifith and slop.
She tried to encourage the pups to follow her by nibbling the fruit that clustered on this new tree.
They still contented themselves with the darkness and the corners of the empty world, nibbling on insects, eschewing any evolutionary innovations more spectacular than a new set of teeth.
Human Beings were bunched together around one trunk, nibbling leaves desultorily and clinging, one-handed, to branchlets.
Guinevere saw by the ragged condition of her lip that the child had been chewing and nibbling for several hours.
His hand came up to grasp her wrist as he sucked her probing finger into his mouth, delicately nibbling the tip.
Kazan tells me that nibbling is not Italian, and she is the reason I traveled to Venice.
Now, standing at the end of Pier 17 and ruminatively chewing on a thick and floppy pizza, I felt that I was nibbling on the corpse of a great metropolis.
He could no more resist touching her than a kid could resist nibbling on a forbidden piece of candy.
He held firm, catching her ear between his teeth and nibbling as he moved through the living room en route to her bedroom.
She slid down his length, licking and nibbling, found a male nipple and sucked it into her eager mouth.