morsel
noun/ˈmɔːsl/
/ˈmɔːrsl/
- a small amount or a piece of something, especially food
- a tasty morsel of food
- He ate it all, down to the last morsel.
Extra Examples- a few tiny morsels of bread
- a juicy morsel of gossip
- She couldn't eat even a morsel of the beef that he had ordered.
- They put out some tasty morsels for the hedgehogs.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- choice
- delicious
- juicy
- …
- eat
- morsel of
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, diminutive of mors ‘a bite’, from Latin mors- ‘bitten’, from the verb mordere.Want to learn more?
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