nibble
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 少量食物，细咬，轻咬，啃
- v.
- 一点一点地咬，细咬，吹毛求疵
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
The verb is derived from Late Middle English nebillen, nebyll (“to peck away at (something), nibble; (figurative) to attempt to sing (a part of a song)”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Middle Low German nibbelen (“to eat in small bites, peck”) (modern German Low German nibbeln, gnibbeln, knibbeln), possibly a variant of knabbelen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”) or imitative.
The noun is derived from the verb.