nosh

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Intj

An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.

Synonyms

nosh-up

snack

food

🍽️

munch

keep

piece

refection

refreshment

scoff

scrump

snack food

collation

penilingus

crunch

eat

🍽️

grub

Translations

bouffer

🍽️

لعق قضيب

Fellatio

felació

manducar

🍽️

menjar a dos queixos

fel·lació

mampfen

Imbiss

Zwischenmahlzeit

πεοθηλασμός

τρώω

μεζεδάκι

πεολειξία

مص قضيب

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nɑʃ/

Etymology

Cognate with German: naschen

In summary

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.