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NOSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a snack or light meal
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 ... he / she / it noshes
Past simple: noshed
-ing form: noshing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
She never loses weight because she snacks between meals
Synonyms:
nosh; snack
Classified under:
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)