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morsel

1 of 2

noun

mor·​sel ˈmȯr-səl How to pronounce morsel (audio)
1
: a small piece of food : bite
2
: a small quantity : fragment
3
a
: a tasty dish
b
: something delectable and pleasing
4
: a negligible person

morsel

2 of 2

verb

morseled or morselled; morseling or morselling

transitive verb

: to divide into or distribute in small pieces

Example Sentences

Noun the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel searching for any morsel of useful information
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The biggest bombshells from the probe turned out to have to do with that latter morsel: confirmation that the Dolphins’ brass had violated league rules by having improper communications with a player under contract with another team. Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022 When food news breaks, Nightcap is here for every last morsel and crumb. Allison Morrow, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022 Visitors then have the chance to shuck and slurp a little morsel of their own from the North Carolina coast. Emily Cataneo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022 Try not to think of this song as a hype morsel, or a discourse starter, or an aesthetic foreshadowing. Chris Richards, Washington Post, 21 June 2022 There was also this little morsel of a quote tucked neatly into the Q&A. Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 25 May 2022 Naming some prospective new morsel of California is the easy, fun part. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021 The morsel of good news is that, short of nuking Phoenix and outlawing golf, there are conservation measures that could have genuine impact — and a great example of these efforts being put into effect is, somewhat shockingly, Las Vegas. Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2022 Amid the many methods that animals have devised for hunting their prey — the sticky webs that spiders use to catch insects or the fake tasty morsel some turtles display in their mouths — the shooting technique of archerfish stands out. NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022
Verb
The actual act of killing gets morseled out as a tension-creating Big Reveal, fodder for flashforwards and cliffhangers. Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 May 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Anglo-French, diminutive of mors bite, from Latin morsus, from mordēre to bite — more at mordant

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1598, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of morsel was in the 14th century

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