as in to snack
informal
to eat food
—usually + on
We noshed on chips.
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Recent Examples of nosh
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
The attendees — a who’s who of Washington figures — noshed on crab cakes, ribeye steak and ice cream while sipping on wine and chatting in Statuary Hall, kicking off the first day of the Trump administration.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
The popular and extremely lively brunch spot, Hash Kitchen, boasts a bloody Mary bar and live DJ spinning records while you nosh avocado toast and sip mimosa flights.
—Nora Heston Tarte, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Since the comment function on the breakup announcement was turned off, social media users naturally went to the foodies’ last video together, noshing on pizza.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
The attendees — a who’s who of Washington figures — noshed on crab cakes, ribeye steak and ice cream while sipping on wine and chatting in Statuary Hall, kicking off the first day of the Trump administration.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
Step through the red-brick facade any morning of the week for a coffee and a nosh—and don’t miss out on the latkes served with applesauce and sour cream or the matzo ball soup.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
The popular and extremely lively brunch spot, Hash Kitchen, boasts a bloody Mary bar and live DJ spinning records while you nosh avocado toast and sip mimosa flights.
—Nora Heston Tarte, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nosh
Verb
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Even though diet culture often frames snacking as a negative—an unbridled act of gluttony at best, and a sign of moral weakness at worst—reaching for an edible pick-me-up when the hunger pangs hit is the most natural thing in the world.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
6 June 2025
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Other responses ranged from snacking on construction materials to being physically repulsed by a customer's name at work.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Jan Dane of Stock Culinary Goods set up shop near the nibbles with stacks of issues 204 and 203 and Burlap & Barrel x SAVEUR spice blends.—
Madison Trapkin,
Saveur,
7 May 2025
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Pulling together a quick nibble to serve with a cocktail when the neighbors unexpectedly pop over for happy hour?—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
27 May 2025
Verb
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Even deer and rabbits will munch on the seedlings and plants if given the chance.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
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Countless videos of content creators munching on the viral bar (and 'dupes') have circulated the internet since.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
Noun
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The instruction booklet is thorough, and filled with lots of neat science titbits and facts too.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
23 May 2025
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Among other titbits, Hip-Hop fans are 130 percent more likely to buy merchandise from an artist’s online store than the average music streamer, its year-end report also found.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The photo shows a happy Thomas with his Philly in his lap, and a mouthful of Angelo's.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Miss Manners has seen people who want to talk through a mouthful of food cover their mouths like this, but not those trying to modulate their voices. Is lowering your volume just too obvious?—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2025
Noun
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As stories of love, loss and migration unfold over small bites and careful sips, Bose paints a portrait of identity steeped in sensory memory.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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What Davies has thus far brought to his second bite of the Who apple has proven … mixed.—
Glen Weldon,
NPR,
7 June 2025
Noun
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For upward of half a century starting in the 1950s, those morsels of information constituted a kind of currency, routinely passed in gay media circles, sometimes as scandalous gossip but more often as a kind of on-the-spot clarification of the record, often in brutally blunt terms.—
Duane Michals Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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The Netflix title, from Tim Miller and David Fincher, continues to stun with its delicious, bite-sized eye morsels.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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“Nosh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosh. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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