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Nibble vs Appetizer - What's the difference?

nibble | appetizer |

As nouns the difference between nibble and appetizer

is that nibble is a small, quick bite taken with the front teeth while appetizer is a small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.

As a verb nibble

is to eat with small, quick bites.

nibble

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
  • (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
  • Derived terms
    * nibbly

    Verb

    (nibbl)
  • To eat with small, quick bites.
  • The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
  • * 2 November 2014 , Alex James in (The Guardian), The day I came face-to-face with a tiger
  • *:Giant parrots nibbled seed from the children's fingertips and my sister peeled a couple of satsumas for the lemurs.
  • * 1911 , (Rudyard Kipling), Big Steamers
  • *:"For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble ,
  • *:The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve,
  • *:They are brought to you daily by all us Big Steamers--
  • *:And if anyone hinders our coming you'll starve!"
  • To bite lightly.
  • He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.
  • To consume gradually.
  • * 11 May 2011 , Ann Carrns in The (New York Times), Prepaid Cards Subject Jobless to Host of Fees
  • *:A report out this week from the National Consumer Law Center lays out a host of ways in which banks nibble away at jobless benefits with fees the center called “junk.”
  • Etymology 2

    From nibble', punning on the homophony of '''byte''' and ' bite

    Alternative forms

    * nybble

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.http://foldoc.org/nibble
  • * 1993 , Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering (page 287)
  • That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero.

    References

    appetizer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * appetiser (Commonwealth only)

    Noun

    (wikipedia appetizer) (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal
  • Synonyms

    * * hors d'oeuvre * starter