Meaning

5 senses
  1. (colloquial, countable)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!

  2. (colloquial, countable)An act of eating.

    We had a good munch at the chippy.

  3. (countable)A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.

More meanings 2
  1. (slang, uncountable)Food.

  2. (countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.

More definitions
  • Norwegian painter (1863-1944)
  • a large bite

Origin

From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly

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).

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Forms

plural: munches
Singularmunch
Pluralmunches

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • Norwegian painter (1863-1944):Edvard Munch

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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