nosh \nosh\,
verb:
1. To snack or eat between meals.
2. To snack on.
noun:
1. A snack.
“Here are more munchies for you to nosh on. I know you're probably hungry.” Vincent added a platter of scrumptious fried calamari to the table.
-- Jessica Speart, "Black Delta Night"
"You got anything to nosh on?" "We're going to a good restaurant; leave your appetite alone."
-- William Goldman, "Boys and Girls Together"
Nosh stems from the Yiddish word nashn from the German word meaning "to nibble." It entered English in the 1950s.
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