英语词汇snack的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	snack
词源	snack. Snacks, so named, probably, because they are quickly “snatched,” have meant “mere bites or morsels of food, as contrasted with regular meals” since the 17th cen- tury. Wrote the first writer known to use the word: “When once a man has got a snack . . . he too often retains a hankering . . .”
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