Sneak peek of Comic #446 (Patreon)

I caught myself using the word “nosh” for the first time yesterday. I looked up its definition and it‘s actually Yiddish in origin, dating back to 1892!

From Yiddish נאַשן‎ (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-Germanic *hnaskōną (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”).

We’ve had a history of using archaic words in the comic (i.e. Piper and Jeremy) but ”nosh” seems to be something that has become more popular with time. How do these things come to be? 🧐