| 单词 | nosh |
| 释义 | nosh (once / 115876 pages) nv To nosh is to have a snack. You might nosh on a slice of cold pizza and a handful of chocolate chips after school. Many people like to nosh on popcorn while watching movies, and you could nosh on the cookies you baked for the school bake sale. You can also call a meal a nosh, especially if it's just a snack: "Let's have a nosh before we head back out on the hiking trail." Nosh comes from the Yiddish word -nashn, "nibble," and its earliest use in English, around 1917, was as a shortened form of nosh-house, or "restaurant." WORD FAMILYnosh: noshed, nosher, noshes, noshing USAGE EXAMPLESWe grab chopsticks, anoint ourselves with oily string beans and fill a lazy Susan with enough Chinese food to ensure days of leftover noshing. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Elite London journalists noshing on sushi ignore the problems that hard-working northern Brits suffer as a result of immigration. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) Or maybe a nosh to replenish you on this marathon shopping spree? Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016) 1n (Yiddish) a snack or light meal Hyper bite, collation, snack a light informal meal 2v eat a snack; eat lightly Syn|Hypo|Hyper snack browse, graze eat lightly, try different dishes eat eat a meal; take a meal |
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