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snack

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).

Noun

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snack (plural snacks)

  2. A light meal.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:meal
  4. An item of food eaten between meals.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
      The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
  5. (slang) A very sexy and attractive person.
    • 2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications:
      Up close, he was a total snack. “That was pretty slick.” “Well.” He cocked his head, “I'm a pretty slick guy.” “I'm Kevin,” I said. “Romeo,” he put out his hand. “You're kidding.”
    • 2019, Loy A. Webb, The Light, Concord Theatricals, →ISBN, page 22:
      You were looking like a snack. I was looking like a snack. We were finally going to do what two snacks do... I immediately went into my routine. Covers on. Lights off. But you Mr. Tate...you softly grabbed my hand, kissed it, and turned the lights back on.
    • 2020, Gena Showalter, Prince of Stone, HQN Books, →ISBN:
      Her confusion amped up. But so did her attraction. He was a total snack.
Alternative forms
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  • (attractive person): snacc
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Verb

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snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

  1. To eat a light meal.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
      Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.
  2. To eat between meals.
    Coordinate term: graze
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Etymology 2

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See snatch (transitive verb). Ultimately of the same origin as the word under Etymology 1, but perhaps through a different source.

Noun

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snack (plural snacks)

  1. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.

Verb

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snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To snatch.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To bite.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To share.

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken (from which snakken).

Noun

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snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje n)

  1. snack
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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snack

  1. inflection of snacken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

French

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Etymology

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From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.

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snack m (plural snacks)

  1. snack bar
    Synonym: snack-bar

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English snack.

Noun

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snack n (plural snackuri)

  1. snack

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative snack snackul snackuri snackurile
genitive-dative snack snackului snackuri snackurilor
vocative snackule snackurilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsnak/ [ˈznak], /esˈnak/ [ezˈnak]
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: snack

Noun

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snack m (plural snacks)

  1. snack

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

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Etymology

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Deverbal from snacka (“to chat, to talk”).

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snack n (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) talk, speech
  2. (colloquial) a talk
    Kan vi ta ett snack?
    Could we have a talk?
    Jag ska ta ett allvarligt snack med honom
    I will have a serious talk with him
  3. (colloquial, sometimes) bull, nonsense, empty talk (mostly from "snack" sounding colloquial and lending itself to such usage)
    Äh, vilket snack!
    Eh, what a load of nonsense!
    mycket snack och lite substans
    plenty of hot air and little substance
  4. (idiomatic, colloquial, in "(det är) inget snack om saken" ((there is) no talk of the matter)) (there is) no question about it (it definitely is the case)
    Han är skyldig. Det är inget snack om saken.
    He is guilty. There is no question about it.

Declension

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Declension of snack
nominative genitive
singular indefinite snack snacks
definite snacket snackets
plural indefinite snack snacks
definite snacken snackens

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