munch
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See also: Munch
English
Etymology
From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare crunch).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mʌntʃ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Verb
munch (third-person singular simple present munches, present participle munching, simple past and past participle munched)
- (often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
- Jim was munching on a biscotti.
- 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
- At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”
- To eat vigorously or with excitement.
- Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!
- 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the Nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
Derived terms
Translations
to chew
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to eat vigorously
Noun
munch (countable and uncountable, plural munches)
- A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
- Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
- (colloquial) An act of eating.
- We had a good munch at the chippy.
- (uncountable, slang) Food.
- 2014, Tommy Hawkins, Let's Get Dogs#!t, page 127:
- So once we had a shower with what only I can describe as a fitted garden hose with a broken head, ventured out to get some munch. We found a little restaurant, sat down and pretty much got told what we was having.
- (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant.
- 1996, peh^ – the prat with the hat, “What Is a 'Munch'?”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet):
- And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)
- 2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet):
- does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (New York drill music, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
- 2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice:
- You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.
- 2023 January 1, Uncle Murda (lyrics and music), “Rap Up 2022” (track 9), in Rap Up:
- How many kids this nigga Nick Cannon plan on fucking having
It's like he tryna get a hundred more girls pregnant
And overturning Roe vs. Wade ain't helping
You moving like a munch we know what you about
Drake unfollowed Ice Spice after he flew her out
Luxembourgish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German manec, from Old High German manag. Cognate with German manch, Dutch menig, English many.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
munch
Declension
Declension of munch