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Re: Klingon WOTD: noS (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: noS (verb)
• Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 11:56:11 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, May 1, 2008.
>
>Category: Food
>
>Klingon word:   noS
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     eat in small mouthfuls, nibble

Never used in canon.

KGT 100:  Indeed, if one eats too neatly or if one does not eat with gusto, 
it will probably be assumed that one is not enjoying the food. (The verb 
{noS} ["eat in small mouthfuls, nibble"], unless applied to small animals 
or very young children, is always used derogatorily.)

Pun:

Cf. Yiddish *nosh* "snack, eat between meals, nibble at tidbits"

Related verbs:

{Sop} eat;  {natlh} consume;  {'ep} consume soup;  {je'} feed (someone else)

Cf. {chop} bite;  {ghup} swallow;  {roS} lick;  {yIv} chew;  {waH} taste, 
try out (food);  {mum} taste, sense flavors

Cf. also {ghung} be hungry



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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