nosh

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English

WOTD – 11 February 2016

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

nosh (countable and uncountable, plural noshes)

  1. (slang, UK) Food.
  2. (slang, US) A light meal or snack.
  3. (Polari) Fellatio.
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Verb

nosh (third-person singular simple present noshes, present participle noshing, simple past and past participle noshed)

  1. (slang, intransitive, usually with on) To eat a snack or light meal.
    They were noshing on fruit.
  2. (Polari) To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
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Etymology 2

Abbrevation of no shit.

Interjection

nosh

  1. (slang, Australia, sarcastic) An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.
    Synonyms: no shit; no shit, Sherlock

Anagrams

Narragansett

Noun

nòsh

  1. possessed form of osh: my father

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