a small amount or a piece of something, especially food少量,一块(食物)- a tasty morsel of food一点儿可口的食物
- He ate it all, down to the last morsel.他全吃光了,一点儿不剩。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- a few tiny morsels of bread几小片面包
- a juicy morsel of gossip少许有趣的闲言碎语
- She couldn't eat even a morsel of the beef that he had ordered.她连他点的牛肉都吃不了。
- They put out some tasty morsels for the hedgehogs.他们为那些刺猬预备了一些可口的食物。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + morselprepositionSee full entry Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, diminutive of mors ‘a bite’, from Latin mors- ‘bitten’, from the verb mordere.