to eat or gnaw on something large while holding with the hands; to tear something apart with the teeth

Caabay et al. 2014

to gnaw away, to eat away little by little (as cockroaches gnawing at a sock)

wear down something bit by bit withthe front teeth (as in biting coconut meat from its shell because it is hard to scrape out); nibble, as a pig at the trunk of a papaya tree

Wolff 1972

to nibble a part of

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

to nibble, gnaw

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956