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    What Yiddish word for a snack or light meal derives from a German word for "nibbling"?

    Question #77382. Asked by Flem-ish. (Mar 17 07 11:04 AM)


    skysmom65

    		Nosh: To eat a snack or light meal
    Yiddish nash, from nashn, to eat sweets, nibble on, from Middle High German naschen, to nibble, from Old High German hnascôn.

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    Mar 17 07, 11:23 AM
    toughynutter

    		Nosh

    from

    "Yiddish nash, from nashn, to eat sweets, nibble on, from Middle High German naschen, to nibble, from Old High German hnascn"

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nosh

    Mar 17 07, 11:32 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		Alternate spellings: nasch, nosch, nash.

    Mar 17 07, 2:23 PM

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