Nibble vs Champ - What's the difference?
nibble | champ |
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.
To eat with small, quick bites.
* 2 November 2014 , Alex James in (The Guardian),
*: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.
To consume gradually.
* 11 May 2011 , Ann Carrns in The (New York Times),
*: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.”
(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)
(Ireland, uncountable) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions
(ambitransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
* Hooker
* Dryden
* 1951 , publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 166, ¶ 18
(informal) champagne
* 1990 , Ann Heller, "Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining", Dayton Daily News , 6 April 1990:
* 2009 , :
* 2010 , Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Inheritance , Pan Books (2010), ISBN 9780330513265,
As a noun nibble
is a small, quick bite taken with the front teeth or nibble can be (computing) a unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bitshttp://foldocorg/nibble.As a verb nibble
is to eat with small, quick bites.As a proper noun champ is
(cryptozoology) a large aquatic creature, similar to the loch ness monster, which supposedly lives in lake champlain, located on the shared borders of the american states of vermont and new york and the canadian province of quebec.nibble
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* nibblyVerb
(nibbl)- The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
The day I came face-to-face with a tiger
- He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.
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Etymology 2
From nibble', punning on the homophony of '''byte''' and ' biteAlternative forms
* nybbleNoun
(en noun)- That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero.
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champ
English
Etymology 1
See championDerived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
uncertain, probably imitativeNoun
Verb
(en verb)- They began irefully to champ upon the bit.
- Foamed and champed the golden bit.
- The man beside him placed a cigar between Mallow’s teeth and lit it. He champed on one of his own and said, “You must be overworked. Maybe you need a long rest.”
Derived terms
* champ at the bit * chompEtymology 3
From (champagne) by shortening.Noun
(-)- "They're dressed up very elegantly and it's nice they have a glass of champ , even if it's non-alcoholic," Reif says.
- We're drinkin' Santana champ , 'cause it's so crisp
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- 'Glass of champ ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.