snack

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /snæk/
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Rhymes: -æk

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.

Alternative formsEdit

(attractive person): snacc

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

TranslationsEdit

a light meal

Afrikaans: peuselhappie
Arabic: وَجْبَة خَفِيفَة‎ f (wajba ḵafīfa)
Burmese: သရေစာ (my) (sa.reca), မုန့် (my) (mun.)
Catalan: refrigeri m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 零食 (zh) (língshí), 小吃 (zh) (xiǎochī)
Czech: svačina (cs) f
Danish: snack c
Dutch: tussendoortje (nl) n
Esperanto: kolaziono, manĝeto
Finnish: välipala (fi), pikkupurtava
French: casse-croûte (fr) m or casse-croute (fr) m, hors-d'œuvre (fr) m, goûter (fr) m
Georgian: წახემსება (c̣axemseba), წასაუზმება (c̣asauzmeba)
German: Imbiss (de) m, Happen (de) m, Snack (de) m, Jause (de) f (Austria)
Greek: κολατσιό (el) n (kolatsió)
Ancient Greek: ἔμβρωμα n (émbrōma)
Hungarian: falatozás (hu), uzsonna (hu), tízórai
Ido: repasteto (io)
Irish: scroid f, raisín m
Italian: spuntino (it) m
Japanese: 軽食 (ja) (けいしょく, keishoku), スナック (sunakku)

Korean: 간단한 식사 (gandanhan siksa), 경식 (ko) (gyeongsik)
Latin: merenda f
Macedonian: у́жина f (úžina), за́куска f (zákuska)
Malay: snek (ms)
Mongolian: зууш (mn) (zuuš)
Mòcheno: marenn f
Norwegian: matbit
Old English: nōngereord n, nōnmete m (midafternoon meal)
Polish: przekąska (pl) f
Portuguese: lanche (pt) m, comidinha f, petisco (pt) m
Quechua: quqawi
Russian: заку́ска (ru) f (zakúska), переку́с (ru) m (perekús), лёгкая заку́ска f (ljóxkaja zakúska)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: zakuska (sh) f, užina (sh) f
Spanish: tentempié (es) m, (formal usage) refrigerio m, (figurative usage - also : bocadillo) bocado (es) m, (Mexico) botana (es) f, (Southern Spain) piquislabis m, (Spain standard usage) piscolabis (es) m, (Guatemala) refacción m, (Venezuela, colloquial) bala fría (es) f
Swedish: mellanmål (sv), fika (sv)
Tagalog: dautan, meryenda
Turkish: atıştırmalık (tr), çerez (tr)
Ukrainian: заку́ска f (zakúska)

an item of food eaten between meals

Burmese: မုန့် (my) (mun.)
Catalan: piscolabis (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 零食 (zh) (língshí)
Czech: svačina (cs) f
Danish: snack c
Dutch: tussendoortje (nl)
Finnish: välipala (fi)
French: casse-croûte (fr) m or casse-croute (fr) m, grignotage (fr) m
Georgian: მსუბუქი საჭმელი (msubuki sač̣meli), საუზმეული (sauzmeuli), ხემსი (xemsi)
German: Zwischenmahlzeit (de) f
Greek: κολατσιό (el) n (kolatsió)
Ancient Greek: ἔμβρωμα n (émbrōma)
Hungarian: harapnivaló (hu)
Irish: sneaic f, smailc f
Italian: merendina (it) f
Japanese: 間食 (ja) (かんしょく, kanshoku), (especially around 3 pm) おやつ (ja) (oyatsu)
Kabuverdianu: fatióta

Khmer: អាហារសម្រន់ (aahaa sɑmrɑn)
Korean: 간식 (ko) (gansik)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: merenda f
Maori: paramanawa, kai timotimo
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: naalghazhí
Nepali: नाश्ता (nāśtā), नास्ता (nāstā)
Polish: przekąska (pl) f
Portuguese: lanche (pt) m
Russian: заку́ска (ru) f (zakúska), по́лдник (ru) m (póldnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: zakuska (sh) f, užina (sh) f
Spanish: tentempié (es) m, (formal usage) refrigerio m, (figurative usage - also : bocadillo) bocado (es) m, (Mexico) botana (es) f, (Southern Spain) piquislabis m, (Spain standard usage) piscolabis (es) m, (Guatemala) refacción m, (Venezuela, colloquial) bala fría (es) f
Swedish: mellanmål (sv)
Thai: ของว่าง (th) (kɔ̌ɔng-wâang), อาหารว่าง (th)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: çerez (tr), atıştırmalık (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} зууш (mn) (zuuš)
Spanish: (Ecuador, Guatemala, México) ^{(please verify)} antojito m, ^{(please verify)} aperitivo (es) m, (Mexico) ^{(please verify)} botana (es), (Colombia) ^{(please verify)} pasaboca (es), (Venezuela) ^{(please verify)} pasapalo, ^{(please verify)} pincho (es) m, (Spain) ^{(please verify)} tapa (es) f

Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} meryenda
Tibetan: ^{(please verify)} ཁ་ཏོག (kha tog)

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.

Derived termsEdit

snack down

TranslationsEdit

to eat a light meal

Esperanto: manĝeti
Finnish: syödä välipala
French: grignoter (fr)
Georgian: წაიხემსებს (c̣aixemsebs)
German: jausnen (Austria)

Macedonian: ужина (užina)
Middle High German: naschen
Russian: заку́сывать (ru) impf (zakúsyvatʹ), закуси́ть (ru) pf (zakusítʹ), переку́сывать (ru) impf (perekúsyvatʹ), перекуси́ть (ru) pf (perekusítʹ)
Turkish: atıştırmak (tr)

to eat between meals

Finnish: napostella (fi)
French: grignoter (fr)
Japanese: 間食する (kanshoku suru)
Maori: kōmuramura, kai timotimo

Middle High German: naschen
Russian: переку́сывать (ru) impf (perekúsyvatʹ), перекуси́ть (ru) pf (perekusítʹ)
Spanish: picar (es), mecatear (es) (Colombia), merendar (es) (in the afternoon)

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)

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.)