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Added 9 October 2026

nosh

/nɑʃ/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about nosh at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A light meal or snack.
Fellatio.

verb

To eat a snack or light meal.
They were noshing on fruit.
To perform fellatio (on); to blow.

interjection

An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.

Origin

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.

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