Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Food. · A light meal or snack. · Fellatio.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo eat a snack or light meal. · To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
From Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.
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