/mʌntʃ/
OriginFrom Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).
- oftenTo chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
“Jim was munching on a biscotti.”
“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 ”
- To eat vigorously or with excitement.
“Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!”
“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”
- colloquial, countableA location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
“Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!”
- colloquial, countableAn act of eating.
“We had a good munch at the chippy.”
- slang, uncountableFood.
“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 w”
- countableA casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
“And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)”
“does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???”
- A surname.
- Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist.
Formsmunches(present, singular, third-person) · munching(participle, present) · munched(participle, past) · munched(past) · munches(plural) · Munches(plural)