Is the word snack an abbreviation, or some sort of acronym?
Or does it have some odd latin origin or something?
Originally in the sense of snap, bite. It comes from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen
I knew it had to have some sort of Germanic origin.
In our house we don’t snack, we nosh.
@Darwin In German you use naschen ;) edit:: Just saw the link now.. I knew it anyway =)
But I’m not speaking German.
@Darwin: We do a lot of our noshing at Noshville. ;-)
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!