Meanings
munch1
present singular third person munches · participle present munching · participle past munched · past munched
- oftenTo chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
Jim was munching on a biscotti.
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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 - To eat vigorously or with excitement.
Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!
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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
plural munches
- colloquialcountableA location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
- colloquialcountableAn act of eating.
We had a good munch at the chippy.
- slanguncountableFood.
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 - countableBDSMA casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???
2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet)1 more example
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) - countablederogatoryslanguncountableNew York drill musicSomeone who easily agrees to give oral sex.First known use popularized, if not invented, by Ice Spice from August 2022
You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.
2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice5 more examples
Catch lil' Ddot outside, a Blizzy gettin' dead And his mother a munch, she gon' gimme neck
2022 October 31, Yus Gz, “MunchK (Munch Remix)”Hump real nice, I'm all in her goodies I don't eat the cake, I play with the pussy Waking up late so I take her to brunch She said, “Eat the ass,“ she think I'm a munch
2022 December 5, Raud & Bril, “No Munchies”How many kids this nigga Nick Cannon plan on fucking having It's like he tryna get a hundred more girls pregnant And overturning Roe vs. Wade ain't helping You moving like a munch we know what you about Drake unfollowed Ice Spice after he flew her out
2023 January 1, Uncle Murda, “Rap Up 2022” (track 9), in Rap UpThis year niggas know that I'm up Make you feel it inside of your gut Put my finger inside of her what I'm a ooter so don't try to front That boy dirty, that nigga a munch That boy dirty, he live in the Bronx
2023 February 10, Fiction Fake, “Gut / Butterflies”Got a piercing and sum tats, I had to tell u do your make up You the type of white girl to have ur parents tell you wake up You a snow bunny, you a hoe with snow money, you can go and be a munch while I fuck on old honeys
2023 March 26, Phillino, “Bad Bunny”
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Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishmonchen
- Englishmunch
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).
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian жвакам, Мунк
- жвакам (žvakam)to chew
- Мунк (Munk)surname
- Едвард Мунк (Edvard Munk)Edvard Munch
- Мунк (Munk)Edvard Munch
Czech přežvykovat, žmoulat
- přežvykovatto chew
- žmoulatto chew
- chroupatto chew
- žvýkatto chew
Finnish rouskuttaa, ahmia
- rouskuttaato chew
- ahmiato eat vigorously
German mampfen, geräuschvoll kauen
- mampfento chew
- geräuschvoll kauento chew
- fressento eat vigorously
- futternto eat vigorously
- schmausento eat vigorously
- schnabulierento eat vigorously
Māori kamu
- kamuto chew
Norwegian knaske
- knasketo chew
Polish chrupać, schrupać
- chrupaćto chew
- schrupaćto chew
Portuguese mastigar ruidosamente, devorar
- mastigar ruidosamenteto chew
- devorarto eat vigorously
- paparto eat vigorously
Romanian molfăi, plescăi
- molfăito chew
- plescăito chew
Russian ча́вкать
- ча́вкать (čávkatʹ)to chew
Swedish mumsa, mumsa
- mumsato chew
- mumsato eat vigorously
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with munch
All rhymes →Cite this entry
munch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/munch
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