Munch Meaning
/mʌntʃ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
verbTo eat vigorously or with excitement.
Sentence Examples
I would like to have something to munch on with my beer.
Do you have any snacks that we could munch on?
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The hungry boy began to ____ his sandwich, making a lot of noise.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I like to ____ on a few fresh carrots or some crunchy apple slices while I am sitting at my desk and working on my projects.
Word Origin & History
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).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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.”"
— 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:
"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."
— 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the Nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
"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 ^([sic]) having."
— 2014, Tommy Hawkins, Let's Get Dogs#!t, page 127:
"And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)"
— 1996, peh^ – the prat with the hat, “What Is a 'Munch'?”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet):
"does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???"
— 2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The hungry boy began to ____ his sandwich, making a lot of noise.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I like to ____ on a few fresh carrots or some crunchy apple slices while I am sitting at my desk and working on my projects.