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Munch

UK/mʌntʃ/ US/ˈmʌntʃ/ fairly common slang
noun (2) verb (1)

noun

1.

Norwegian painter (1863-1944)

Synonyms
2.

a large bite

  • “he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich”

verb

1.

chew noisily

  • “The children crunched the celery sticks”
Synonyms

Origin

From 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).

Phrases

  • dick munch
  • maximal munch
  • munch on

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