snack
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snack/snak/
▶noun
- 1 a small quantity of food or a light meal, eaten between meals or in place of a meal.
- 2 Austral. informal a thing that is easy to accomplish.
– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from MDu. snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, var. of snappen.
'snack' also found in these Oxford entries:
bar
- bite
- Bombay mix
- cheese straw
- crib
- crisp
- devils on horseback
- egg roll
- fast food
- milk bar
- nosh
- noshery
- peanut
- piece
- popcorn
- pork scratchings
- refection
- refreshment
- savoury
- sev
- snatch
- spring roll
- taco chip
- tiffin
- toastie
- trail mix
- tuck
