whittle at

whittle at something

to cut or carve at something. He just sat there, whittling at a chunk of wood. I am not carving anything, I am just whittling at some wood.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Taliesin	tal-ee-ES-in (Welsh)	Welsh, Arthurian Romance
Sender	-	Yiddish
Toygar	-	Turkish
CĂTĂLina	-	Romanian
Quentin	['kwentin]
Mikaela	MEE-kah-e-lah (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish