Food and drink
Synonyms for nibble
The synonym for nibble recorded in this bank is peck, in the sense "to eat with small, light bites, especially without much appetite". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for nibble
- peckverb, in the sense "to eat with small, light bites, especially without much appetite"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day nibble is audited in a second meaning.
to eat with small, light bites, especially without much appetite
He could only nibble the crust of his toast, too nervous to eat anything else.
The true synonym
peck
Same sentence, swapped: He could only peck the crust of his toast, too nervous to eat anything else.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- gulp
- season
- marinate
Where nibble turns up in the game
nibble is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where nibble is the trap
- bingeverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is gorge, in the sense "to eat or drink a large amount in one session", so nibble is there to be ruled out.
Play nibble
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nibble reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other food and drink words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. nibble carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.