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nosh¹

  • /nɑʃ/ US
  • /nɒʃ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒʃ

Where it comes from

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.

noun noshes

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

verb noshes · noshing · 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.

nosh²

  • /nɑʃ/ US
  • /nɒʃ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒʃ

Where it comes from

Abbrevation of no shit.

interjection

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

    Similar: no shit, no shit, Sherlock

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"nosh." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/nosh. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

nosh. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/nosh

Chicago

"nosh." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/nosh.

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@misc{nosh_2026,
  title = {nosh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nosh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}