crunchie

Noun

crunchie (plural crunchies)

1. A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.
   • “Crunchie?” said Velvet, her face lighting. “I got them this morning.” “On tick still?” “Yes. She was cross but I swore we'd pay by Saturday.” In the gold paper was a chocolate stick. Beneath the chocolate was a sort of honeycomb, crisp and friable, something between biscuit and burnt sugar. Fry's...1935, Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, page 18
   • A different method and a different flavour from the usual brown crunchie. The recipe is easily doubled for a larger batch.2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, page 207
2. (plural-normally, US Vietnam era military slang) An infantry soldier, a grunt.
   • To the subjective mind of the combat crunchie and cannon cocker, executing with his legs, sweat, and often his life, the grand designs […]2016, Micheal Clodfelter, Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier’s Memoir, →ISBN
3. (South Africa, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A white Afrikaner.
   • […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54