nosh

verb (used without object)

1. to snack or eat between meals.

verb (used with object)

2. to snack on: They noshed peanuts and cookies while watching television.

noun

3. a snack.

noun

1. food or a meal

verb

2. to eat

v.1957, from Yiddish nashn “nibble,” from Middle High German naschen, from Old High German hnascon, nascon “to nibble,” from Proto-Germanic *(g)naskon. Related: Noshed; noshing. Earlier as a noun (1917) meaning “a restaurant,” short for nosh-house.