nosh

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verb

noshed; noshing; noshes

intransitive verb

: to eat a snack : munch
noshing on pizza
We noshed at the amusement park.
nosher noun

nosh

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noun

: a light meal : snack

Examples of nosh in a Sentence

Noun I'll just have a quick nosh before we go.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
However, as Blackball and Holland noshed on In-N-Out after the session, the singer warned his pal, who was working at a box manufacturer at the time, that there were no guarantees that his line (and brush with stardom) would make the final cut. Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024 Servers passed around trays of In-N-Out burgers, which Rita Moreno delighted in while holding court on one of the many plush couches stationed throughout the party to nosh on her burger. Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for nosh 

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Word History

Etymology

Verb and Noun

Yiddish nashn, from Middle High German naschen to eat on the sly

First Known Use

Verb

1892, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1873, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nosh was in 1873

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“Nosh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nosh. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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