as in to snack
informal
to eat food
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We noshed on chips.
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Recent Examples of nosh
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Shop for an Aloha shirt, nosh on sandwiches from a food truck, or listen to live music at one of the three stages at the market.
—Rachel Ng, AFAR Media, 7 May 2025
Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
At the pre-fair breakfast, where VIPs noshed on bagels and deviled eggs washed down with coffee and mimosas, Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director of Americas, emphasized the importance of art in difficult times.
—Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Verb
Those thirsty from the dance floor can enjoy a make-your-own egg cream station from Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, sip on thematic cocktails, nosh on snacks from Lilistar and more Dirty Dancing themed fun.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Shop for an Aloha shirt, nosh on sandwiches from a food truck, or listen to live music at one of the three stages at the market.
—Rachel Ng, AFAR Media, 7 May 2025
Noun
Fast forward to 2024, and Mar’s Lunar New Year party at her West Village hotspot, Le B, saw Martha Stewart holding court in the kitchen as gold confetti showering a crowd noshing on caviar and fried chicken.
—Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
At the pre-fair breakfast, where VIPs noshed on bagels and deviled eggs washed down with coffee and mimosas, Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director of Americas, emphasized the importance of art in difficult times.
—Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nosh
Verb
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But when either snacking on regular bone-in rodents or a calcium-rich diet, snake cell crypts featured plenty of calcium, phosphorus, and iron spheroids.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 July 2025
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Abi Ferris was up bright and early June 13 snacking on a small charcuterie of apples, cheese and hummus while her mom, Nicole Ferris, braided her hair.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Everton having a nibble at Aston Villa’s John McGinn is intriguing.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
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More sips and nibbles: National Sushi Day was Wednesday, but don't let the silly day-makers slow your summertime roll.—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Verb
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The camera then alighted on Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon enjoying beers in the stands and freaking out about being on camera, as well as well as Adam Sandler, Happy Gilmore 2 co-star Christopher McDonald and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog munching on popcorn shrimp.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
22 July 2025
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Dig your toes in the sand while sipping a mai tai and munching on the restaurant’s famous Bimini Bread with Aruba Glaze and whipped honey butter.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
15 July 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 Dodgers still cracked to life against Logan Webb, who last month fed this lineup with a mouthful of cutters to great success.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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He’s quickly engrossed and, every so often, reaches out for a mouthful of corn dog.—
Christopher O'Donnell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Rabies is found in the saliva of infected animals and is transmitted primarily through a bite.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 July 2025
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Add in a rotating selection of oysters, raw bar towers, and one of the city’s most fun bites: Siberian caviar and parmesan custard served in a salted waffle cone.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
Noun
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The cake consists of dense, rich, chocolatey layers with a chocolate mousse filling and a ganache frosting, and not a morsel remained.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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After devouring the crispy skin, diners tend to pick at the bones with their forks (or fingers) to scrape off every single morsel of meat.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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“Nosh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosh. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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