• (US)IPA^(key): /nɑʃ/
• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /nɒʃ/

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• Rhymes:-ɒʃ

FromYiddishנאַשן(nashn), fromMiddle High Germannaschen(“nibble”) (which is also the parent ofGermannaschen), fromOld High Germannaskōn(“to nibble; parasite”), fromProto-West Germanic*hnaskwōn(“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”).Doublet ofnesh.

nosh (countable anduncountable,pluralnoshes)

1. (slang, UK)Food.
2. (slang, US) Alightmeal orsnack.
3. (Polari)Fellatio.

• (food):noshery(“restaurant”),nosh-up,posh nosh

nosh (third-person singular simple presentnoshes,present participlenoshing,simple past and past participlenoshed)

1. (slang, intransitive, usually withon) To eat a snack or light meal.

   They werenoshing on fruit.

2. (Polari) To performfellatio (on); toblow.

• (to eat):nosh up(“meal; feast”),nosher
• (to fellate):nosh off

Abbrevation ofno shit.

nosh

1. (slang, Australia, sarcastic)An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.

   Synonyms:no shit;no shit, Sherlock

• Eric Partridge (2005), “nosh”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors,The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume2 (J–Z), London; New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN,page1385.

• Hons,Shon,Nohs,NOHs,hons

nòsh

1. possessed form ofosh:myfather

• Roger Williams (1643),A Key into the Language of America, London:Gregory Dexter,→OCLC,page28

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