From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmorselmor‧sel /ˈmɔːsəl $ ˈmɔːr-/ noun [countable] DFPIECEa very small amount of something, especially a small piece of food SYN scrapmorsel of a morsel of bread a morsel of scandal birds searching for tasty morsels
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morsel• Two gulls were fighting over a morsel of food.• I said, trying to slip a morsel of fish between her teeth.• The clams were mostly oil-drenched bread crumbs with a morsel of chopped clam buried at the bottom of the shell.• milk chocolate morsels• She had cleared her plate of every morsel.• It seems like too much work-all those bones for a few morsels of meat.• Only a few of Wolsey's men lingered, licking their chops, expecting to be tossed this last juicy morsel.• I asked Jon if the plants proved to be a tasty morsel for the Forest's ponies.• A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.• Estate agents think it will be a very tasty morsel for an international company.• We dubbed this plating the Tabula Rasa: Enjoy your morsel, meditate on the white space.morsel of• a morsel of bread• My editors were hungry for every morsel of Hollywood gossip.Origin morsel (1200-1300) Old French mors “bite”, from Latin mordere; → MORDANT 