Chumble

Quick meaning: Chumble is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To peck at or nibble.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To peck at or nibble.

Example Sentences

"Can you play the violin?" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.

Little dogs (his spaniel’s eyes encountered many) leaped and fawned about her, their sharp neat teeth clogging in the soft candy they chumbled from her gloved hand.

The baby, whimpering when Janey thrust the crust into his mouth, now whimpered no longer but chumbled at the dry bread, slobbered over it, wiped it down Janey's front, dropped it in the grass and at once forgot about it, sitting on her lap […]

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chobble, gnabble, mumble, nibble, sniggle, begrumble.

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