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1. morsel
noun. ['ˈmɔrsəl'] a small amount of solid food; a mouthful.
Etymology
- morsel (Middle English (1100-1500))
- morsel (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
Rhymes with Morsel
- thorsell
- forsell
- dorsal
Sentences with morsel
1. Noun, singular or mass
I'd eat every last morsel of cookie dough and leave a bowl full of vanilla ice cream.
Quotes about morsel
1. Me,"Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut."Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell."I'm the nut!"Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.
- Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex
2. People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'"[What It Is (2009)]
- Dylan Moran
3. Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre