Etymology

munch

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Today it means: To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed. Full definition →

First used popularized, if not invented, by Ice Spice from August 2022Middle English monchen
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  1. Middle English · inherited frommonchen
  2. English todaymunch

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).

First known use, by meaning

  • popularized, if not invented, by Ice Spice from August 2022 Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.

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