slurp 'eat noisily' piece 'eat intermittently; take small bites of' peck at 'eat like a bird' pick 'eat intermittently; take small bites of' pick at 'eat like a bird' peck 'eat like a bird' nibble 'eat intermittently; take small bites of' sip 'drink in sips'
down 'COD: consume (a drink)' feed 'COD: eat' lunch 'COD: no obj., with adverbial eat lunch. ' have 'COD: eat or drink' swill 'COD: drink greedily or in large quantities. ' quaff 'COD: drink (something) heartily' ingest 'COD: with obj. take (food or drink) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it. ' lap 'COD: (of an animal) take up (liquid) with the tongue' eat 'COD: put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it. ' snack 'COD: no obj. eat a snack. ' devour 'COD: eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly.' imbibe 'FN: drink in (formal/scientific)' feast 'COD: Eat and drink sumptuously. "The men would congregate and feast after hunting."' sup 'COD: (dated) eat supper' breakfast 'FN: eat (some food as) the first meal of the day. "She breakfasted on fried bread and bacon."' munch 'COD: Eat steadily and audibly. ' nibble 'COD: a.take small bites out of. with obj. or eat in small amounts. ' nosh 'FN: have a snack' swig 'COD: drink in large draughts. "Dave swigged the wine in five gulps." "Ratagan swigged at his beer."' gobble 'COD: eat hurriedly and noisily' nurse 'COD: hold (a cup or glass), drinking from it occasionally' gulp 'COD: Swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly. He smiled and gulped his tea.' sip 'COD: Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls. "I sat sipping coffee."' consume 'COD: Eat, drink, or ingest.' slurp 'COD: eat or drink with a loud sucking sound. "She slurped her coffee." "He slurped noisily from a wine cup."' drink 'COD: take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow. ' guzzle 'COD: eat or drink greedily. "He would guzzle his ale."' dine 'COD: Eat dinner. "We dined at a restaurant."'
The anorexic girl just picks at her food She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles She was sipping her tea He slurped his soup He pieced at the sandwich all morning
Examples from VerbNet
Cynthia nibbled. Cynthia nibbled the carrot. Cynthia nibbled at the carrot.
Examples from SemCor
She stood sipping and chewing and watching. He and Irvin_Moll were sipping coffee at the breakfast bar. Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no_more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon. It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint_julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season 's cotton and tobacco crops; of the stereotyped Negro servants chanting hymns as they plow the fields; of these and a host of other antiquated legends that deny the South its progressive leaps of the past century. Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet_rolls. Shayne strode out blithely, and Rourke checked his watch and sipped his drink, getting a dime ready_to make the telephone_call to the police. Grabski slurped his way to the bottom of the soup_bowl. Sipping their coffee, discussing the weather, the day 's shopping, Fritzie 's commitments at the network( all of which he would cancel), they avoided the radio, the TV news_show, even the front page of the Santa_Luisa_Register, resting on the kitchen bar.