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
SunČAna	soon-CHAH-nah	Croatian
Hasan	-	Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Indonesian
Barra	-	Irish
ThỊ	-	Vietnamese
Maverick	MAV-ə-rik	English
Mwanajuma	-	Eastern African, Swahili