Nibbling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. --Shak.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "nibbling":
     appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,
     chewing, consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment,
     dieting, dining, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony,
     gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness,
     hunger, ingestion, licking, manducation, mastication, messing,
     munching, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy,
     pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, regalement, relishing,
     rumination, savoring, tasting, vegetarianism, wolfing