A biter who takes dainty repeated bites

Usage examples of nibbler.

Battle for Christmas, judging our rodent brothers effete city folk, delicate nibblers and noshers who scorned our lumberjack appetites.

He gave up, ordered a formal report filed with central battle headquarters on Nilea, sought under his backstrap for a persistent nibbler that had been pestering him all day.

Barnacles are pests too, but when the nibblers wrench them off ships they remove and eat the caulking also, so that barges and fishing boats spring sudden fatal leaks.

The booths had been moved to one side and the central area was almost completely blocked by an enormous heap of dead spiny fish, nibblers stripped of their spawn and ready to be hauled away.

They kept up their music in shifts, so that the nibblers were continuously charmed to the surface.

If I had had a trident or gaff I could now catch nibblers, and indeed to either side of me professional fishermen speared nibblers with easy economy of motion and shook them off into wide shallow baskets for sale later.

It has been observed that the individual leaves of many trees, when damaged, increase their internal quantity of various tannins, thus making themselves unpalatable to further would-be nibblers - whether insects, cattle, deer or other species.

So when we came to my wing the smell of nibbler eggs sauteed in sweet oil wafted out to greet us.

The servers were bringing in the meal, and its fragrance made my stomach grumble for its first taste of nibbler.

I forgot to fill my plate, and after a polite pause the servers helped me to red nibbler roe and clear pink sauce freckled with spices.

The arrow vanished with a tiny splash of foam, and then a deeper watery commotion marked the death throe of a nibbler.