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Is nibble a Scrabble word?

Yes, nibble is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of nibble?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive)Examples: "The rabbit nibbled the lettuce."; "His little Goats gan driue out of their ſtalls, / To feede abroad, vvhere paſture beſt befalls. / […] / Some clambring through the hollovv cliffes on hy, / Nibble the buſhie ſhrubs, vvhich grovve thereby."; "I then nibbled all the red wax of our last ball-tickets, […]"Synonyms: nabtransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "My hand, as it hangs down, thou nibblest tenderly, […]"; "Social animals perform many little services for each other: horses nibble, and cows lick each other, on any spot which itches: […]"transitive

3. (transitive)transitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "Before he realized it, he had nibbled his way through a whole bag of potato chips."; "The cows nibbled their way across the field."transitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "The bases of the smaller trees were nibbled bare by rabbits, […]"; "The grass had been nibbled short and even, so this stretch was not shaggy and red like the surrounding country, but gray and velvety."transitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]"; "Am I reiected, all my baites nibled off, / And not the fiſh caught?"; "Y[oung] Lar[oon]. I am ſure our Bait is good—A fine VVoman is as good a Bait for a Prieſt-trap, as toaſted Cheeſe is for a Mouſe-trap. / Old Lar[oon]. Yes, but the Raſcal vvill nibble off tvventy Baits before you can take him."transitive

noun (English)

1. (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.figuratively

2. (obsolete, rare) Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage.Examples: "On the northern slopes of the light-earthed hills the moss had come over the herbage, and the sweet nibble of the sheep was souring."obsoleterare

noun (English)

1. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.Examples: "I own several abaci and two books on how to use them, but they all have four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity."; "At every negative-going transition it reads a 4-bit ADPCM nybble (there are 2 nybbles per byte) and stores it in a memory-resident table."; "Data is being received by a system in serial sequences of four bit nybbles. (A nybble is usually defined as a four bit grouping.) […] Our mission, should we decide to accept it, is to test each nybble and determine whether or not the four bits constitute a valid BCD (8421) number."

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "nibble"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "nibble"?

Scrabble
10 points
N1
I1
B3
B3
L1
E1
Words With Friends
14 points
N2
I1
B4
B4
L2
E1

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