Synonyms of the word nibble


NIBBLEBITE - CHOMP - EAT - NYBBLE - PICK - PIECE

nibble

  • n. A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
  • n. (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
  • v. (transitive) To eat with small, quick bites.
  • v. (transitive) To bite lightly.
  • v. (figuratively) To consume gradually.
  • n. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.

bite

  • v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
  • v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
  • v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
  • v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
  • v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
  • v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
  • v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
  • v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
  • v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
  • v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
  • v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
  • v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
  • v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
  • v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
  • n. The act of biting.
  • n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
  • n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
  • n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
  • n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
  • n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
  • n. A small meal or snack.
  • n. (figuratively) aggression.
  • n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
  • n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
  • n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

chomp

  • n. The act of chomping (see below).
  • v. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
  • v. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or,…

eat

  • v. To ingest; to be ingested.
  • v. To use up.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
  • v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
  • v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
  • n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

nybble

  • n. (computing) Half of a byte, i.e. four bits.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

piece

  • n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
  • n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
  • n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
  • n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
  • n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
  • n. An artillery gun.
  • n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
  • n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
  • n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
  • n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
  • n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
  • n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
  • n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
  • n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
  • n. (US) A pacifier.
  • n. (colloquial) A distance.
  • v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
  • v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
  • v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

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