nosh
Plural: noshes
Noun
- (Yiddish) a snack or light meal
- Food.
- A light meal or snack.
- Fellatio.
Verb
Verb Forms: noshed, noshing, noshes
- To eat snacks, especially between meals.
- eat a snack; eat lightly
- To eat a snack or light meal.
- To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
Intj
- An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.
Examples
- They were noshing on fruit.
- We’d nosh on pretzels during our Scrabble breaks, refueling for the next round.
Origin / Etymology
From Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.
Synonyms
snack, no shit, no shit, Sherlock
Scrabble Score: 7
nosh: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnosh: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nosh: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary