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countable and uncountable, plural nibblings
The act or sound of one who nibbles. quotations examples
Minute nibblings and rustlings broke the silence.
1941, Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
A small adjustment or encroachment. quotations examples
I send you back the two last sheets, because you bid me. I reserve my nibblings and minutiae for another day.
1821, The British Prose Writers: Gray's letters, page 26
Meantime the penetration of Shantung by means of railway discrimination, railway military guards, continual nibblings here and there, will be going on.
1921, John Dewey, China, Japan, and the USA
A child of one's sibling. examples
present participle and gerund of nibble examples