snack

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /snæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

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) Finnish: välipala (fi), pikkupurtava French: casse-croûte (fr) m. or casse-croute (fr) m., hors-d'œuvre (fr) m., goûter (fr) m. German: Imbiss (de) m., Happen (de) m., Snack (de) m.

Italian: spuntino (it) m. Japanese: 軽食 (ja) (keishoku), スナック (ja) (sunakku) Russian: закуска (ru) (zakúska) f., перекус (ru) (perekús) m. Serbian: zakuska (sr) f., užina (sr) 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: please add this translation if you can 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. 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. Serbian: zakuska (sr) f., užina (sr) 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: please add this translation if you can Turkish: çerez (tr), atıştırmalık (tr)

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

Korean: 식사 Malay: snek 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)

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.

Derived terms

• snack down

Anagrams

• nacks

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

snack c. (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