nosh

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

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.

nosh (countable and uncountable, plural noshes)

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

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

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

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

   They were noshing on fruit.

2. (Polari) To perform fellatio (on); to blow.

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

Abbrevation of no 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, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1385.

• Hons, Shon, Nohs, NOHs, hons

nòsh

1. possessed form of osh: my father

• Roger Williams (1643) A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 28