nibbling
See also: nibling
English
Noun
nibbling (plural nibblings)
- The act or sound of one who nibbles.
- Virginia Woolf
- Minute nibblings and rustlings broke the silence.
- Virginia Woolf
- A small adjustment or encroachment.
- 1821, The British Prose Writers: Gray's letters (page 26)
- I send you back the two last sheets, because you bid me. I reserve my nibblings and minutiae for another day.
- 2013, John Dewey, China, Japan, and the USA
- Meantime the penetration of Shantung by means of railway discrimination, railway military guards, continual nibblings here and there, will be going on.
- 1821, The British Prose Writers: Gray's letters (page 26)
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