Meanings
plural snaccidents · alternative snackcident
- countablehumorousslanguncountableA snack accident; an instance of a snack being eaten accidentally.
Every so often I’d step on the scales or catch my reflection in the mirror and think ‘How the feck did this happen?!’ I didn’t mean to gain weight, it happened by snaccident.
2016, Jules Coll, “Introduction”, in Flabyrinth: My Escape from Maximum Insecurity Prison, Dublin: Gill Books, →ISBN, page 52 more examples
Absentmindedly munching your way through an entire packet of biscuits while engrossed in Netflix could be considered a late night ‘snaccident’ but, for a growing number of people in the UAE, compulsive eating is putting their health at risk.
2017 April, Faye Rowe, “The Secret Life of a Binge Eater”, in Emirates Woman, page 102‘Yeah, I knew you liked canapés, but …’ Angus received a biff to his arm. ‘That was a, um, snaccident. I didn't mean to eat them all. But they were so delicious … the truffle bit on the mushroomy sauce, oh my word, I mean, I was in food heaven.’
2019, Fliss Chester, Meet Me on the Riviera, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page unknown
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