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NOSH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a snack or light mealplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("nosh" is a kind of...):

bite; collation; snack (a light informal meal)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)

Derivation:

nosh (eat a snack; eat lightly)

 II. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they nosh  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it noshes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: noshed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: noshed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: noshing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat a snack; eat lightlyplay

Example:

She never loses weight because she snacks between meals

Synonyms:

nosh; snack

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "nosh" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nosh"):

browse; graze (eat lightly, try different dishes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue nosh


Derivation:

nosh ((Yiddish) a snack or light meal)

nosher (someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals)

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