From en.wiktionary.org:
[Munch]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], a variant of [enm], [enm] ["to munch (food); chew audibly"; >
Modern English dialectal [en]], probably [en] in origin (compare [en]; [de]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 17, 2012 | author=Nathan Rabin | work=The Onion AV Club
|title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4,
episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992) (see
http://www.avclub.com/articles/homers-triple-bypass,81172/) |passage=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.”}}
1. To eat vigorous ly or with excitement .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-08-03 | volume=408 | issue=8847 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Revenge of the Nerds (see
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21582512-explosion-start-ups-changing-finance-better-revenge-nerds)
|passage=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.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to chew]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn]
[trans-bottom]
[to eat vigorously]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[munch (BDSM)] [~]
1. [en] A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
2. [en] An act of eating.
3. [en] Food .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Tommy Hawkins | title=Let's Get Dogs#!t | page=127
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant , bar or pub .
2. * [en ]
3. * [en ]
4. [en] Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex . [popularized, if not invented, by Ice Spice from August 2022]
5. * {{ quote-song | en
|date=2022-08-10 |artist=w:Ice Spice |title=[Munch (Feelin' U)] |passage=You
thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a MUNCH.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
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6. * [en]
** Luxembourgish
*** Alternative forms
- [lb]
*** Etymology
From [lb], from [lb]. Cognate with [de], [nl], [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [lb]
*** Pronoun
[lb]
1. many
**** Declension
{{lb-decl-pronoun |munchen|munch|muncht/munches|munch
|munchem|muncher|munchem|munchen}}
**** Derived terms
- [lb]