Definitions for morsel
ˈmɔr səlmorsel

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. morselnoun

   a small quantity of anything

   "a morsel of paper was all he needed"

2. morsel, bit, bitenoun

   a small amount of solid food; a mouthful

   "all they had left was a bit of bread"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. morselnoun

   A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.

2. morselnoun

   A very small amount.

3. Etymology: From morsel, from morsel, from morsellum, diminutive. of morsum, neuter of morsus, past participle of mordere. Compare French morceau.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Morselnoun

   Etymology: morsellus, low Latin, from morsus.

   1. A piece fit for the mouth; a mouthful.

   Yet cam’st thou to a morsel of this feast,
   Having fully din’d before. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   I was
   A morsel for a monarch. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

   And me his parent would full soon devour
   For want of other prey, but knows that I
   Should prove a bitter morsel, and his bane. John Milton.

   Every morsel to a satisfied hunger, is only a new labour to a tired digestion. Robert South, Sermons.

   He boils the flesh,
   And lays the mangled morsels in a dish. Dryden.

   A wretch is pris’ner made,
   Whose flesh torn off by lumps, the rav’nous foe
   In morsels cut, to make it farther go. Nahum Tate, Juvenal.

   A letter to the keeper of the lion requested that it may be the first morsel put into his mouth. Addison.

   2. A piece; a meal.

   On these herbs, and fruits and flow’rs,
   Feed first; on each beast next, and fish and fowl,
   No homely morsels! John Milton, Par. Lost, b. x.

   A dog crossing a river with a morsel of flesh in his mouth, saw, as he thought, another dog under the water, upon the very same adventure. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

   3. A small quantity. Not proper.

   Of the morsels of native and pure gold, he had seen some weighed many pounds. Boyle.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. morsel

   A morsel is a small piece or amount of food, or a small quantity of anything. It can also refer to a tempting or delicious piece of food. It generally denotes anything that is small or bite-sized.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Morselnoun

   a little bite or bit of food

2. Morselnoun

   a small quantity; a little piece; a fragment

3. Etymology: [OF. morsel, F. morceau, LL. morsellus, a dim. fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite; prob. akin to E. smart. See Smart, and cf. Morceau, Mordant, Muse, v., Muzzle, n.]

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1. Morsel

   Morsel is an indie rock ensemble that was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan and features Miriam Cabrera, Be Hussey, John Vorus, Jason Burbo, and Joshua Pardon.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Morsel

   mor′sel, n. a bite or mouthful: a small piece of food: a small quantity of anything which is divided.—ns. Mor′sūre, the act of biting; Mor′sus, a bite. [O. Fr. morsel (Fr. morceau, It. morsello), dim. from L. morsus—mordēre, morsum, to bite.]

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1. • Small Indefinite Quantity
   • Taste

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of morsel in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of morsel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of morsel in a Sentence

1. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   'some people look, but they don't see, for to see means to have feelings,like the delicate touch, as when your tongue can find a tiny fish bone hidden within the morsel of food in your mouth. No eyes required remember this!

2. Charlotte Bronte:

   Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

3. Isaac D?Israeli:

   Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.

4. Anthony Trollope:

   I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

5. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973:

   Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=morsel
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Morsel
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=morsel
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morsel
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=morsel
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=morsel