snack

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /snæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Noun

snack (plural snacks)

1. A light meal.
2. An item of food eaten between meals.

Translations

a light meal

• Arabic: وجبة خفيفة (ar) (wajba khafiifa) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零食 (cmn) (língshí), 快餐 (cmn) (kuàicān), 小吃 (cmn) (xiǎochī)

• Dutch: tussendoortje (nl) n
• Esperanto: kolaziono (eo), manĝeto (eo)
• Finnish: välipala (fi), pikkupurtava
• French: casse-croûte (fr) m or casse-croute (fr) m, hors-d'œuvre (fr) m, goûter (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Imbiss (de) m, Happen (de) m, Snack (de) m, Jause (de) f (Austria)
• Italian: spuntino (it) m

• Japanese: 軽食 (ja) (keishoku), スナック (ja) (sunakku)
• Macedonian: ужина (mk) (úžina) f, закуска (mk) (zákuska) f
• Malay: snek (ms)
• Russian: закуска (ru) (zakúska) f , перекус (ru) (perekús) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: zakuska (sh) f, užina (sh) f
• Spanish: tentempié (es) m, refrigerio m (formal usage), bocado m (figurative usage - also : bocadillo), botana f (Mexico), piquislabis m (Southern Spain), piscolabis m (Spain standard usage), refacción m (Guatemala), bala fría f (Venezuela, colloquial)
• Swedish: mellanmål (sv), fika (sv)
• Turkish: atıştırmalık (tr), çerez (tr)

an item of food eaten between meals

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零食 (cmn) (língshí)

• Dutch: tussendoortje (nl)
• Finnish: välipala (fi)
• French: casse-croûte (fr) m or casse-croute (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: merendina (it) f
• Japanese: 間食 (ja) (kanshoku); (especially around 3 pm) おやつ (ja) (oyatsu)

• Polish: przekąska (pl) f
• Russian: закуска (ru) (zakúska) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: zakuska (sh) f, užina (sh) f
• Spanish: tentempié m, refrigerio m (formal usage), bocado m (figurative usage - also : bocadillo), botana f (Mexico), piquislabis m (Southern Spain), piscolabis m (Spain standard usage), refacción m (Guatemala), bala fría f (Venezuela, colloquial)
• Swedish: mellanmål (sv)
• Turkish: çerez (tr), atıştırmalık (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Tagalog: meryenda
• Greek: πρόχειρο φαγητό n
• Italian: lo spuntino m

• Korean: 식사
• Spanish: antojito m (Ecuador, Guatemala, México), aperitivo m, botana (Mexico), pasaboca (Colombia), pasapalo (Venezuela), pincho m, tapa f (Spain)
• Portuguese: lanche m (Brazil)

Derived terms

• snack bar
• snack food
• snacker
• snackette
• snackery
• snackless
• snacky

See also

• munchies

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

Translations

to eat a light meal

• Esperanto: manĝeti (eo)
• Finnish: syödä välipala (fi)
• French: grignoter (fr)
• German: jausnen (de) (Austria)

• Macedonian: ужина (mk) (úžina)
• Russian: закусывать (zakúsyvat') impf., закусить (zakusít') pf.; перекусывать (p'er'ekúsyvat') impf., перекусить (p'er'ekusít') pf.
• Turkish: atıştırmak (tr)

to eat between meals

• Finnish: napostella (fi)
• Japanese: 間食する (ja) (kanshoku suru)

• Russian: перекусывать (p'er'ekúsyvat') impf., перекусить (p'er'ekusít') pf.
• Spanish: picar (es), mecatear (es) (Colombia)

Derived terms

• snack down

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.

Anagrams

• nacks

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /snɛk/

Noun

snack m (plural snacks, diminutive snackje)

1. snack

Derived terms

• snackbar

Verb

snack

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

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

snack n (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) talk, speech

Declension

Declension of snack

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	snack	snacket
genitive	snacks	snackets

See also

• snacka
• skitsnack
• snicksnack