snack

See also: Snack

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /snæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).

Noun

snack (plural snacks)

  1. A light meal.
  2. An item of food eaten between meals.
Synonyms
  • (a light meal): See Thesaurus:meal
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

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

  1. to eat a light meal
  2. to eat between meals
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

See snatch (transitive verb).

Noun

snack (plural snacks)

  1. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
    • Alexander Pope
      At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /snɛk/
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Noun

snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje n)

  1. snack

Derived terms

Verb

snack

  1. first-person singular present indicative of snacken
  2. imperative of snacken

French

Etymology

From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /snak/

Noun

snack m (plural snacks)

  1. snack bar

Synonyms

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

snack m (plural snacks)

  1. snack

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

snack n (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) talk, speech

Declension

Declension of snack 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative snack snacket — —
Genitive snacks snackets — —

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