nibble
transitive verb
rillar
EN Swarms of fish lived near the bed to live near the oysters thrown back by the searching men and to nibble at the shining inner shells.
GL Cardumes de peixes vivían por alí cerca acomodados entre as ostras devoltas ó mar polos buscadores, rillando no brillante interior das cunchas.
Fonte: PER (266)
mordiscar
EN So with the house empty and the doors locked and the mattresses rolled round, those stray airs, advance guards of great armies, blustered in, brushed bare boards, nibbled and fanned, met nothing in bedroom or drawing-room that wholly resisted them but only hangings that flapped, wood that creaked, the bare legs of table, saucepans and china already furred, tarnished, cracked.
GL Dese xeito, coa casa baleira, as portas pechadas e os colchóns enrolados, aqueles refachos de aire extraviados, vangardas de grandes exércitos, penetraron con estrondo acaroando as táboas espidas, mordiscando e deloirando, sen atopar ó seu paso polos dormitorios ou pola sala máis resistencia cá dos pendurados retallos das cortinas, a da madeira que renxía, a das patas espidas das mesas, ou algún cazo ou peza de porcelana xa esportelada, sucia e sen brillo.
Fonte: CAR (1989)
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