TOW (& Answer)

The week we asked about the word nosh.  Nosh is a term that originated in 1957 and applied to eating and drinking, often specifically to eating between meals.  The term comes from the Yiddish.

The question (& answer) were taken from p. 139 of the Oxford Dictionary of Slang by John Ayto.  The book was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press.