nosh

nosh  (nsh) Informal

n.

A snack or light meal.

intr.v. noshed, nosh·ing, nosh·es

To eat a snack or light meal: noshed on a bagel between classes.

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[Yiddish nash, from nashn, to eat sweets, nibble on, from Middle High German naschen, to nibble, from Old High German hnascn.]

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nosher n.

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nosh [nɒʃ] Slang

n

food or a meal

vb

to eat

[from Yiddish; compare German naschen to nibble]

nosher  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	nosh - (Yiddish) a snack or light meal       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 collation, snack, bite - a light informal meal
Verb	1.	nosh - eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals" snack eat - eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" browse, graze - eat lightly, try different dishes; "There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing"

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nosh (Slang)

noun

1. food, eats (slang), fare, grub (slang), feed, tack (informal), scoff (slang), kai (N.Z. informal), chow (informal), sustenance, victuals, comestibles, nosebag (slang), vittles (obsolete or dialect), viands a restaurant which serves fine wines and posh nosh

2. meal, repast We went for a nosh at our local Indian restaurant.

verb

eat, consume, scoff (slang), devour, feed on, munch, gobble, partake of, wolf down, hoover (informal) Guests mingled in the gardens, sipped wine, and noshed at cabaret tables. sipping enormous bowls of frothy cappuccino and noshing huge slabs of carrot cake

Translations

nosh [nɒʃ]

A. N (Brit) → comida f, papeo m, manduca f (Sp)
nosh up! → ¡a comer!

B. VI → comer, papear

nosh [ˈnɒʃ]

n

(British) (= food, grub) → bouffe f
no-show [ˌnəʊˈʃəʊ] n → défection f
nosh-up [ˈnɒʃʌp] n (British) → bouffe > f

nosh (Brit sl)

n (= food) → Futter nt (inf); (= meal) → Schmaus m; to have some nosh → was essen or futtern (inf)

vi → futtern (inf)

nosh [nɒʃ] n (Brit) (fam) → cibo