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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarymor·sel I \ˈmȯr-səl\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French, diminutive of mors bite, from Latin morsus, from mordēre to bite — more at mordant DATE 14th century1. a small piece of food : bite2. a small quantity : fragment3. a. a tasty dish b. something delectable and pleasing4. a negligible person II transitive verb (-seled or -selled ; -sel·ing or -sel·ling) DATE 1598: to divide into or distribute in small piecesEnglish Etymologymorsel late 13c., from O.Frhttp://O.Fr. morsel (Fr. marceau) "small bite," dim. of mors "a bite," from L. morsus "biting, bite," neut. pp. of mordere"to bite" (see mordant).Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7morselmor·sel / 5mC:sl; NAmE 5mC:rsl / noun a small amount or a piece of sth, especially food 少量,一块(食物): a tasty morsel of food 一点可口的食物 He ate it all, down to the last morsel. 他全吃光了,一点不剩。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishmorsel noun ADJ. choice, juicy, tasty (often figurative) a juicy morsel of gossip | tiny VERB + MORSEL eat I couldn't eat another morsel. PREP. ~ of a few tiny morsels of bread OLTmorsel noun⇨ bitWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedmor·selI. \ˈmȯrsəl, ˈmȯ(ə)s-\ noun(-s)Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from mors bite (from Latin morsus, from morsus, past participle of mordēre to bite) + -el— more at smart1. a. : a small piece or quantity of food : bite < the multitude was kept quiet by the morsels of meat which were flung to it — J.A.Froude > < deftly ladled a spoonful of this and a morsel of that into the … skillet — Elinor Wylie > < a bitter morsel to swallow > b. : a small meal : snack < came home, ate his morsel quickly, and left >2. : a small quantity of something : a little piece or portion :fragment < that morsel of information lay dormant for over a hundred years — C.C.Furnas > < his last remaining morsel of self-respect > < a tiny morsel of land lost in the ocean >3. a. : a tasty dish : tidbit < such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano — Time > < sitting apart munching his own delectable morsels — C.S.Kilby > b. : something delectable and pleasing < the girl … is young and very pretty … a morsel worth a little lordly condescension — Eric Blom > < his shorter piano pieces include some choice morsels >4. : a small or negligible person < this ancient morsel — Shakespeare >II. transitive verb(morseled or morselled ; morseled or morselled ; morseling ormorselling ; morsels): to divide into or apportion in small pieces

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