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munch

Pronunciation: /mʌntʃ/

The English word “munch” has 7 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
  2. To eat vigorously or with excitement.

noun

  1. A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
  2. An act of eating.
  3. Food.
  4. A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
  5. Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.

Etymology

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).

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