{
    "term": "morsel",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a small amount or a piece of something, especially food",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a tasty morsel of food"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He ate it all, down to the last morsel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a few tiny morsels of bread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a juicy morsel of gossip"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She couldn't eat even a morsel of the beef that he had ordered."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They put out some tasty morsels for the hedgehogs."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["choice", "delicious", "juicy"],
                "verb + morsel": ["eat"],
                "preposition": ["morsel of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɔːsl/",
                "audio": "mo/morsel/morsel__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɔːrsl/",
                "audio": "mo/morsel/morsel__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, diminutive of mors ‘a bite’, from Latin mors- ‘bitten’, from the verb mordere."
}