Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A snack or light meal.
- intransitive verb To eat a snack or light meal.
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- noun
Food ; alight meal orsnack . - noun slang, UK
Fellatio . - verb intransitive To eat a snack or light meal.
- verb slang, UK To perform
fellatio (on); toblow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) a snack or light meal
- verb eat a snack; eat lightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When Son was young, when he wanted to nurse he would ask to "nosh"--and it caught on because in addition to sounding like nurse, it is a Yiddish word for snack.
Tubac The Raven 2006
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When Son was young, when he wanted to nurse he would ask to "nosh"--and it caught on because in addition to sounding like nurse, it is a Yiddish word for snack.
Archive 2006-10-01 The Raven 2006
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Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable.
"I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do." Ann Althouse 2008
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Over at Becks & Posh cockney for "nosh" there's a great photo spread of the The Halloween Mission Taco Crawl 2004 which reminds me of everything I love about being a touch crazy about food.
Archive 2004-11-01 esther 2004
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Over at Becks & Posh cockney for "nosh" there's a great photo spread of the The Halloween Mission Taco Crawl 2004 which reminds me of everything I love about being a touch crazy about food.
Taco's galore esther 2004
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Mosaic, which Corman describes as an eclectic group of Jewish outdoors lovers, will gather Sunday afternoon for their tashlich ceremony with a "nosh" at a nearby restaurant afterward.
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Late at night, stopping at a drive-through for some kind of nosh, I'd always offer my protector of bite.
A Stitch in Time... 2008
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Late at night, stopping at a drive-through for some kind of nosh, I'd always offer my protector of bite.
A Stitch in Time... 2008
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($7 to sample seven wines), "nosh" plates, a bed-and-breakfast and more.
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26 Miler - A chronicle of Ben's attempt to complete the Marathon Becks & Posh - … modern cokney for 'nosh' by Sam and Fred Budding Cook - Just married and trying my hands at cooking Cha Xiu Bao - What's the biggest problem in this world?
BC Bloggers 2008
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