_nosh_
Verb.
Pronunciation: nɒʃ.
Preterite tense, preterite participle: noshed; present participle: noshing.
Present third person singular: she/he noshes.
Etymology:
from a Yiddish word nashn.
Intransitively: to eat a snack; to nibble; to eat
more for pleasure of nibbling, or for sampling the comestible, than for
necessity; to eat a little quantity of something between meals.
Translation: manger,
grignoter, in French; fare un spuntino, in Italian; mecatear, in Spanish.
A Finnish
study found that only 20 percent of subjects ate because they were hungry; some
noshed to have something to do while reading or
watching TV.
Women Health…
January 2006
Transitively:
to eat (something) by noshing on it; to snack on.
Some
congregated around the metal picnic tables that were bolted down to a concrete
pad beneath an aluminum awning. They noshed chili-covered French fries.
Sandra Brown…
White Hot
Derived words from NOSH: nosher, nosh (noun), noshery, noshable, noshing (n.)
