nosh
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++nosh1 /nɒʃ $ nɑːʃ/ noun [uncountable] informal 1. British EnglishDF food 食物2. American EnglishDFEAT a small amount of food eaten between meals 〔正餐之外的〕小吃,零食 SYN snack
Examples from the Corpus
nosh• Secondly, she likes her nosh.• Maybe do it again, order up a bit of nosh and champagne.• They thought she had got fat, a good advert, on the succulent nosh.• She smells strange and the nosh is tinned but it was better than nothing.nosh2 verb [intransitive] informal THEREto eat 吃→ See Verb tableOrigin nosh2 (1900-2000) Yiddish nashn, from Middle High German naschen “to eat secretly”nosh1 nounnosh2 verbChinese
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nosh
nosh1 /nɒʃ $ nɑːʃ/
noun [uncountable] informal
1. British English food
2. American English a small amount of food eaten between meals
SYN snack
nosh2
verb [intransitive] informal
| I |
noun [uncountable] informal1. British English food
2. American English a small amount of food eaten between meals
SYN snack
| II |
verb [intransitive] informal Date: 1900-2000
Language: Yiddish
Origin: nashn, from Middle High German naschen 'to eat secretly'
to eat
Language: Yiddish
Origin: nashn, from Middle High German naschen 'to eat secretly'
especially