nosh
To eat a snack or light mealTo eat a snack or light meal.
Meaning
2 senses(dated, intransitive, slang, usually, with on)To eat a snack or light meal.
They were noshing on fruit.
eat a snack; eat lightly
(Polari)To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
Origin
From Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also theFrom Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.
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Forms
noshes, noshing, noshed, noshedSynonyms
1 synonyms- eat a snack; eat lightly:snack
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.