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nosh

UK/nɒʃ/US/nɑʃ/

nosh noun: food.

Noun

nosh (countable and uncountable, plural noshes)

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

Verb

nosh (third-person singular simple present noshes, present participle noshing, simple past and past participle noshed)

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

Interjection

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

nosh meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

nosh in Tamil

தீனி, பலகாரம், உணவு, சாப்பிடு

nosh in Bengali

খাওয়া

nosh in Malayalam

food, nutriment, nourishment
ലഘുആഹാരം, ആഹാരം, ഭക്ഷണം, ഭക്ഷ്യം, ഐലം, ഒജീനം
eat, devour, consume
ഭക്ഷിക്കുക, തിന്നുക, തിണ്ണുക, ഭുജിക്കുക, ആഹരിക്കുക, അടുകുക

Synonyms of nosh

Forms of nosh

Noun
pluralnoshes
Verb
third-person singular presentnoshes
present participlenoshing
past participlenoshed
pastnoshed

Origin of nosh

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.

Abbrevation of no shit.

Words formed from nosh

Words that rhyme with nosh

12 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about nosh

What does nosh mean?
Nosh means food.
What is nosh in Tamil?
Nosh in Tamil is தீனி, பலகாரம், உணவு. See Nosh meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nosh?
Nosh can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
How do you pronounce nosh?
Nosh is pronounced /nɑʃ/ (US).
What is the plural of nosh?
The plural of nosh is noshes.

Words near nosh in the dictionary

  1. noseyed
  2. noseying
  3. noseys
  4. nosferatu
  5. Nosferatu spider
  6. nosh
  7. nosh off
  8. nosh-up
  9. nosh-ups
  10. noshed
  11. noshed off

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nosh (page history and authors); nosh (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nosh (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nosh (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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