つまみ食い【つまみぐい】
Frequency rank: 20,984. – 21,085.
- eating with one's fingers
- snitching food; snatched food; secret eating; food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
- embezzlement; misappropriation; exploiting something
- flirting
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
Forms
- つまみ食い【つまみぐい】Frequency rank: 20,984. – 21,085.
- 摘まみ食い【つまみぐい】
- 摘み食い【つまみぐい】Frequency rank: 50,150. – 51,356.
- 撮み食い【つまみぐい】
- つまみぐい
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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You say you had a nibble, it looked to me like you'd polished it off.
Tom ate some of my rice while I was away from the table.