snack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”).
Synonyms
- (a light meal): See Thesaurus:meal
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Verb
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
See snatch (transitive verb).
Noun
snack (plural snacks)
Verb
snack (third-person singular simple present snacks, present participle snacking, simple past and past participle snacked)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken (from which snakken).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snɛk/
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Derived terms
French
Etymology
From English snack, from Middle Dutch snacken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snak/
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “snack” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
Nominalization of snacka (“to chat, to talk”).
Pronunciation
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Declension
Declension of snack | ||||
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Nominative | snack | snacket | — | — |
Genitive | snacks | snackets | — | — |