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/mʌntʃ/ · verb
(often with "on") 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 lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”
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 on free food.
Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
We had a good munch at the chippy.
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.
And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)
Use munch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Munch means (often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed..
Common synonyms include nibble, crunch.
Possible antonyms include gorge, satiate, glut, stuff.
Jim was munching on a biscotti.
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