morsel
Other forms: morsels
A morsel is a small amount of something, a tid-bit, a sliver, usually of something of high-quality and much desired — like a morsel of dark chocolate or a morsel of secret information.
Originally it referred specifically to food — a nineteenth century lady might partake of a "dainty morsel" to eat, for example. More often than not morsel now refers to non-food items: a morsel of good taste; a morsel of common sense, and, of course, most popular of all, a morsel of gossip. That's why, like all good food, all good gossip is juicy.
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a small amount of solid food; a mouthfultypes:crumbsmall piece of e.g. bread or cakebreadcrumbcrumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickeningcracker crumbscrumbs of crackers used especially for coating or thickening
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a small quantity of anything“a morsel of paper was all he needed”type of:small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantityan indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
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