name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
munch
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /mʌntʃ/
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CMU ARPABET: M AH1 N CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable
Examples
- Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
An act of eating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable
Examples
- We had a good munch at the chippy.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
Food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 7
Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Qualifier: New York drill music
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verb
Meaning 8
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: often
Examples
- Jim was munching on a biscotti.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 9
To eat vigorously or with excitement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!
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noun
Meaning 10
a large bite
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bite, chomp
noun
Meaning 11
Norwegian painter (1863-1944)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Edvard Munch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: painter
verb
Meaning 12
chew noisily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The children crunched the celery sticks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crunch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
History
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).
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: Мунк (Munk) — surname
- Bulgarian: Едвард Мунк (Edvard Munk) — Edvard Munch
- Bulgarian: Мунк (Munk) — Edvard Munch
- Albanian: përçap — to chew
- Bulgarian: жвакам (žvakam) — to chew
- Cornish: densel — to chew
- Czech: přežvykovat — to chew
- Czech: žmoulat — to chew
- Czech: chroupat — to chew
- Czech: žvýkat — to chew
- Finnish: rouskuttaa — to chew
- German: mampfen — to chew
- German: geräuschvoll kauen — to chew
- Māori: kamu — to chew
- Norwegian: knaske — to chew
- Polish: chrupać — to chew
- Polish: schrupać — to chew
- Portuguese: mastigar ruidosamente — to chew
- Romanian: molfăi — to chew
- Romanian: plescăi — to chew
- Russian: ча́вкать (čávkatʹ) — to chew
- Serbo-Croatian: mljackati — to chew
- Serbo-Croatian: žvakati — to chew
- Slovene: hrustati — to chew
- Slovene: pohrustati — to chew
- Swedish: mumsa — to chew
- ǃXóõ: gʘkxʻái — to chew
- Cornish: densel — to eat vigorously
- Finnish: ahmia — to eat vigorously
- German: fressen — to eat vigorously
- German: futtern — to eat vigorously
- German: schmausen — to eat vigorously
- German: schnabulieren — to eat vigorously
- Portuguese: devorar — to eat vigorously
- Portuguese: papar — to eat vigorously
- Swedish: mumsa — to eat vigorously
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