munch
UK/mʌntʃ/
munch verb: to chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
Verb
munch (third-person singular simple present munches, present participle munching, simple past and past participle munched)
- To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
- Jim was munching on a biscotti.
- 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...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!
- 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...2013 August 3, “Revenge of the Nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
Noun
munch (countable and uncountable, plural munches)
- A 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!
- An act of eating.
- We had a good munch at the chippy.
- Food.
- 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
- A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
- 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)
- does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet)
- Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
- You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice
- Catch lil' Ddot outside, a Blizzy gettin' dead
And his mother a munch, she gon' gimme neck2022 October 31, Yus Gz, “MunchK (Munch Remix)”
Proper noun capitalized: Munch
Munch (plural Munches)
- A surname.
- Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist.
munch meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
munch in Urdu
- چبانا
munch in Bengali
- শব্দ করে চিবানো, মচমচ করে খাওয়া
munch in Malayalam
- champ, chew, chomp
- കടിച്ചുചവച്ചു തിന്നുക, ചവയ്ക്കുക, കടിച്ചുപൊട്ടിക്കുക, അണകൾ ഇളക്കി ചവയ്ക്കുക, ചവച്ചരക്കുക, ചവച്ചു ശബ്ദമുണ്ടാക്കിക്കൊണ്ടു തിന്നുക
munch in Kannada
- ಕುರುಕು, ಬಾಯಾಡಿಸು, ದವಡೆಗಳಿಂದ ಒಂದೇಸಮನೆ ಅಗಿಯುತ್ತ ತಿನ್ನು
Examples of munch in a sentence
- The frosting in his beard was a giveaway that he had been munching the cake.
- Jim was munching on his chocolate softie cone with his eyes closed.
- Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
Forms of munch
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | munches |
| present participle | munching |
| past participle | munched |
| past | munched |
| Noun | |
| plural | munches |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Munches |
Origin of munch
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).
Words formed from munch
Phrases with munch
Words that rhyme with munch
Questions about munch
- What does munch mean?
- Munch means to chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
- What is munch in Urdu?
- Munch in Urdu is چبانا. See Munch meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is munch?
- Munch can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce munch?
- Munch is pronounced /mʌntʃ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of munch?
- The past tense of munch is munched.
Words near munch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: munch (page history and authors); Munch (page history and authors); munch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); munch (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); munch (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); munch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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