munch

CEFRC1

/mʌntʃ/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To eat something noisily or with repeated bites.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.

Examples

  • Do you have any snacks that we could munch on?

  • I would like to have something to munch on with my beer.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To eat vigorously or with excitement.

  2. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An act of eating.

More examples

In context

  • Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!

  • Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!

  • Jim was munching on a biscotti.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The hungry boy began to blank his sandwich, making a lot of noise.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

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).