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nosh

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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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
noshSecondly, 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 → See Verb tableOrigin nosh2 (1900-2000) Yiddish nashn, from Middle High German naschen to eat secretly
Corpus food


nosh
I
nosh1 /nɒʃ $ nɑːʃ/ noun [uncountable] informal
1. British English food
2. American English a small amount of food eaten between meals
   SYN  snack

II
nosh2 verb [intransitive] informal
 Date: 1900-2000
 Language: Yiddish
 Origin: nashn, from Middle High German naschen 'to eat secretly'
to eat


noshBrE /nɒʃ/ 🔊NAmE /nɑːʃ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, singular] (old-fashioned, BrE, slang) food; a meal 食物;一餐She likes her nosh. 她喜欢她的饭菜。🔊🔊Did you have a good nosh? 你吃得好吗?🔊🔊 [countable] (especially NAmE) a small meal that you eat quickly between main meals 小吃;点心
noshBrE /nɒʃ/ 🔊NAmE /nɑːʃ/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they nosh BrE /nɒʃ/ 🔊 NAmE /nɑːʃ/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it noshes BrE /ˈnɒʃɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈnɑːʃɪz/ 🔊past simple noshed BrE /nɒʃt/ 🔊 NAmE /nɑːʃt/ 🔊past participle noshed BrE /nɒʃt/ 🔊 NAmE /nɑːʃt/ 🔊 -ing form noshing BrE /ˈnɒʃɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈnɑːʃɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive, transitive] ~ (sth) (informal) to eat