Etymologie - Snack

 

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Snack, selon le Collins :

noun

     a light quick meal eaten between or in place of main meals

     a sip or bite

     (rare) a share

     (Australian, informal) a very easy task

verb

     (intransitive) to eat a snack

word of origin

     probably from Middle Dutch snacken, variant of snappen to snap

synonyms

     light meal, bite, refreshment(s), nibble, titbit, bite to eat, elevenses

     eat between meals, graze, nibble

in French

      en-cas

 

Snack, selon l'Oxford :

noun

     A small amount of food eaten between meals:

     not many people make it through to the evening meal without a snack

     A light meal that is eaten in a hurry or in a casual manner:

     bar snacks are served at lunchtime

     Australian informal A thing that is easy to accomplish:
     It’ll be a snack         

     It's a snack being a kid these days

verb

      Eat a snack:
      she likes to snack on yogurt

      The report also found that nine out of ten people snacked,
      and many replaced meals with ‘grazing’ on foods
      often dangerously high in saturated fat

Origin

      Middle English (originally in the sense 'snap, bite'):
      from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken 'to bite', variant of snappen.
      Senses relating to food date from the late 17th century.

 

 

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