Morsel
['mɔːs(ə)l] or ['mɔrsl]
Definition
(noun.) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; 'all they had left was a bit of bread'.
(noun.) a small quantity of anything; 'a morsel of paper was all he needed'.
Checker: Uriah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A little bite or bit of food.
(n.) A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
Inputed by Katherine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bite, mouthful, bit of food.
Typist: Phil
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BIT]
Editor: Meredith
Definition
n. a bite or mouthful: a small piece of food: a small quantity of anything which is divided.—ns. Mor′sūre the act of biting; Mor′sus a bite.
Editor: Shelton
Examples
- Just a morsel, and a taste of cheese, that's all. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let him eat up every morsel. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Franklin snatched a morsel from the luncheon-table, and rode off to Frizinghall--to escort his cousins, as he told my lady. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She threw morsel by morsel into the fire, and stood pensively watching them consume. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I can take a morsel of dinner standing and be off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I thank you, no, not a morsel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was hungry, but before I had swallowed a morsel, he began a running sum that lasted all through the breakfast. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Give the word, and I'll sell off every morsel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny--my last coin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Just a morsel of money, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That was the last morsel of the door to be finished. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In the morning, with my tools upon my shoulder, eating my morsel of black bread as I go, I make a circuit by the prison, on my way to my work. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- What amount of small change, Missis,' he said, with an abstracted air, after a little meditation, 'might you call a morsel of money? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hitherto he had been teaching them a grand tragedy; he tore the tragedy in morsels, and came next day with a compact little comic trifle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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