Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A light meal. · An item of food eaten between meals. · A very sexy and attractive person.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo eat a light meal. · To eat between meals.
From Middle Dutch snacken (“to snack”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *snakkōną (“to smack one's lips, open one's mouth to eat; to snatch (with one's mouth?), snack on”), whence also etymology 2; ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with German schnäken (“to snack”). More at Proto-Germanic *snak-.
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