finger food

See also: Fingerfood

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪŋɡə(ɹ) ˌfuːd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

finger food (countable and uncountable, plural finger foods)

1. Food that can be eaten with one's hands, as opposed to requiring utensils; often appetizers and snacks.

   He didn't serve a full lunch or dinner at the party, but there was plenty of finger food to munch.

Translations

Food that can be eaten with one's hands

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手抓食物

• Danish: fingermad c
• Finnish: sormiruoka, sormisyötävä
• Galician: petisco (gl) m
• German: Fingerfood (de) n
• Malay: makanan cekut, ماکنن چکوت (makanan cekut)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fingermat m

  Nynorsk: fingermat m

• Portuguese: petisco (pt) m
• Spanish: pasaboca (es), (Spain) picoteo (es)
• Swedish: plockmat (sv) c
• Welsh: bwyd bys a bawd m

See also

• convenience food
• hand fruit