snack
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).
NounEdit
snack (plural snacks)
- A light meal.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:meal
- An item of food eaten between meals.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
- (slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
- 2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications:
- Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”
- 2019, Loy A. Webb, The Light, Concord Theatricals (→ISBN), page 22:
- You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.
- 2020, Gena Showalter, Prince of Stone, HQN Books (→ISBN):
- Her confusion amped up. But so did her attraction. He was a total snack.
- 2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications:
Alternative formsEdit
- (attractive person): snacc
Derived termsEdit
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VerbEdit
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
- To eat a light meal.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
- Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.
- To eat between meals.
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Etymology 2Edit
See snatch (transitive verb). Ultimately of the same origin as the word under Etymology 1, but perhaps through a different source.
NounEdit
snack (plural snacks)
- (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
- 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], OCLC 6363280:
- At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks."
VerbEdit
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
- (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bite.
- (obsolete, transitive) To share.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken (from which snakken).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje n)
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
snack
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
snack m (plural snacks)
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Further readingEdit
- “snack” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
snack m (plural snacks)
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Nominalization of snacka (“to chat, to talk”).
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
NounEdit
snack n (uncountable)
- (colloquial) talk, speech
DeclensionEdit
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Nominative | snack | snacket | — | — |
Genitive | snacks | snackets | — | — |