Another term we use to describes snacks is “munch” although that can also mean bigger meals such as lunch or dinner. Nibbles is another.
Starter. A starter is what an American would call an 'appetizer.
You can consider afternoon tea as snack time to keep yourself satiated before you take your dinner. It is not intended to replace your dinner, which Brits usually take around 8 PM. It all started in the 1840s in England when Duchess of Bedford, Georgiana Russell, wanted to munch between lunch and dinner.
Canapes. “A small, prepared and usually decorative food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite.” Yep, this is just a fancy way of saying hors d'oeuvres and/or appetizers. For the record, the only person we know that can pull of saying this is our British CEO.
Snacc, with two Cs, emerges on Black Twitter in 2009, the deliberate misspelling is consistent with other black slang terms, such as phat, thicc, and succ. Early uses of this snacc refer to actual snacks.
Snack is an internet slang term that conveys that a person is considered attractive or sexy.
Grub – is slang for food and comes from the old English word meaning 'dig'.
In some parts of the United Kingdom (namely, the North of England, North and South Wales, Scotland, and some rural and working class areas of Northern Ireland), people traditionally call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal tea (served around 6 pm), whereas elsewhere people would call the midday meal lunch ...
"Chips" in England though is the common reference to what we Americans call French fries, a British use perhaps best known worldwide in relation to "fish and chips." Rather than use the word "chips" like we do in America, Brits refer to small thin salty snacks such as potato chips as "crisps."
Scrummy/Bangers/Nosh
If someone refers to food as scrummy, it means that it is mouthwatering and utterly delicious. Bangers are used for sausages, chips word is for French Fries, and Nosh is for food.
If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.
In the U.K., a lolly is short for lollipop, a word derived from lolly, meaning tongue in an old British dialect and the word pop, which means all sweet-flavored things.
Scampi Fries, Frazzles and tomato soup also emerged among a list of goods those who have left our shores cannot live without. According to figures released by British Corner Shop, Brits who now live in Australia are rushing to cram their cupboards with Shreddies and oxtail soup.
the munchies, Slang. hunger, especially a craving for sweets or snacks: suffering from the munchies. THINGAMABOB OR THINGUMMY: CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE US AND UK TERMS IN THIS QUIZ?
Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Dinner (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening meal)
Let's dig in (or 'dig in') Enjoy your meal (or 'enjoy') Hope you enjoy what we've made for you. Bon appetit.
Hunky-dory: Use this to describe when something is OK, cool, normal or "all good." ("Everything is hunky-dory over here!")
In the U.S., 'appetizers', referring to anything served before a meal, is the most common term for hors d'oeuvres. Light snacks served outside of the context of a meal are called hors d'oeuvres (with the English-language pluralization).
Supper is used especially when the meal is an informal one eaten at home, while dinner tends to be the term chosen when the meal is more formal. In some dialects and especially in British English, supper can also refer to a light meal or snack that is eaten late in the evening.
a sexy and physically attractive person; hottie. Australian Slang.
Middle English (originally in the sense 'snap, bite'): from Middle Dutch snac(k ), from snacken 'to bite', variant of snappen . Senses relating to food date from the late 17th century.