munch

Meaning

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. (colloquial) An act of eating.
3. (slang) Food.
4. A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
5. (slang) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.

Synonyms

chew

crunch

champ

gnaw

bite

masticate

nibble

eat noisily

grind

peck

suck

chomp

smack one’s lips

mash

nip

nosh

scranch

chew the cud

deliberate

scrunch

smack

craunch

eat slowly

manducate

scrump

have a smattering of

mump

bark

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʌntʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare crunch).