different between sustenance vs nosh

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from sustenir (14c) with the suffix -ance, from Vulgar Latin *sustenire, from Latin sustinere. Cf. also Late Latin sustinentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?s.t?.n?ns/

Noun

sustenance (countable and uncountable, plural sustenances)

1. Something that provides support or nourishment.

Related terms

• subsistence

Translations

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ?????? (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German nask?n (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskw?n (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

nosh (countable and uncountable, plural noshes)

1. (slang) Food; a light meal or snack.
2. (Polari) Fellatio.

Derived terms

• (food): noshery (“restaurant”)

Translations

Verb

nosh (third-person singular simple present noshes, present participle noshing, simple past and past participle noshed)

1. (slang, intransitive, usually with on) To eat a snack or light meal.

2. (Polari) To perform fellatio (on); to blow.

Related terms

• (to eat): nosh up (“meal; feast”)
• (to fellate): nosh off

Translations

Anagrams

• Hons, NOHs, Nohs, Shon