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Why is it called a snack?

Asked by blastfamy (2012points) | asked 2 months ago | 7 responses | “Great Question” (1points) | Flag as…

Is the word snack an abbreviation, or some sort of acronym?

Or does it have some odd latin origin or something?

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bvdshec17's avatar

Originally in the sense of snap, bite.
It comes from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen

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aprilsimnel's avatar

I knew it had to have some sort of Germanic origin.

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Darwin's avatar

In our house we don’t snack, we nosh.

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bvdshec17's avatar

@Darwin In German you use naschen ;)
edit:: Just saw the link now.. I knew it anyway =)

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Darwin's avatar

But I’m not speaking German.

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La_chica_gomela's avatar

@Darwin: We do a lot of our noshing at Noshville. ;-)

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Darwin's avatar

We have to nosh at home, unless we are in Austin. That’s the closest real kosher deli to us. Hey, it’s on;y 240 miles away!

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