"munch" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /mʌntʃ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-munch.ogg [Australia] Forms: munches [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌntʃ Etymology: From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare crunch). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|monchen}} Middle English monchen, {{m|enm|mocchen}} mocchen, {{m|enm|mucchen}} mucchen, {{m|en|mouch}} mouch, {{gloss|"to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">mouch</i>}} ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), {{m|en|crunch}} crunch Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} munch (countable and uncountable, plural munches)
  1. A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-munch-en-noun-AMF-1ROB
  2. (colloquial) An act of eating. Tags: colloquial, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-munch-en-noun-3H85fg0m
  3. (uncountable, slang) Food. Tags: slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-munch-en-noun-SDRMr7DU
  4. (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): BDSM
    Sense id: en-munch-en-noun-9Ps6Ech~ Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
  5. (New York drill music, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex. Tags: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-munch-en-noun-NRxU7Za2 Categories (other): Hot words between one and two years old, New York English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 3 1 25 50 3 15

Verb [English]

IPA: /mʌntʃ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-munch.ogg [Australia] Forms: munches [present, singular, third-person], munching [participle, present], munched [participle, past], munched [past]
Rhymes: -ʌntʃ Etymology: From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare crunch). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|monchen}} Middle English monchen, {{m|enm|mocchen}} mocchen, {{m|enm|mucchen}} mucchen, {{m|en|mouch}} mouch, {{gloss|"to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">mouch</i>}} ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), {{m|en|crunch}} crunch Head templates: {{en-verb}} munch (third-person singular simple present munches, present participle munching, simple past and past participle munched)
  1. (often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed. Tags: often Translations (to chew): жвакам (žvakam) (Bulgarian), densel (Cornish), přežvykovat (Czech), žmoulat (Czech), rouskuttaa (Finnish), mampfen (German), geräuschvoll kauen (German), kamu (Maori), knaske (Norwegian), mastigar ruidosamente (Portuguese), molfăi (Romanian), plescăi (Romanian), ча́вкать (čávkatʹ) (Russian), mljackati (Serbo-Croatian), žvakati (Serbo-Croatian), mumsa (Swedish), gʘkxʻái (ǃXóõ)
    Sense id: en-munch-en-verb-K0L6i7g3 Disambiguation of 'to chew': 95 5
  2. To eat vigorously or with excitement. Translations (to eat vigorously): densel (Cornish), ahmia (Finnish), fressen (German), futtern (German), schmausen (German), schnabulieren (German), devorar (Portuguese), papar (Portuguese), mumsa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-munch-en-verb-eX5xwGEn Disambiguation of 'to eat vigorously': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dick munch, maximal munch, muncher, munchy

Pronoun [Luxembourgish]

IPA: /munɕ/
Etymology: From Middle High German manec, from Old High German manag. Cognate with German manch, Dutch menig, English many. Etymology templates: {{inh|lb|gmh|manec}} Middle High German manec, {{inh|lb|goh|manag}} Old High German manag, {{cog|de|manch}} German manch, {{cog|nl|menig}} Dutch menig, {{cog|en|many}} English many Head templates: {{head|lb|pronoun}} munch
  1. many Synonyms: muench, munnech Derived forms: munchmol
    Sense id: en-munch-lb-pron-ETexXHeX Categories (other): Luxembourgish entries with incorrect language header, Luxembourgish pronouns

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Jim was munching on a biscotti.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.”",
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          "word": "kamu"
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          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to chew",
          "word": "knaske"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to chew",
          "word": "mastigar ruidosamente"
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to chew",
          "word": "molfăi"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to chew",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1996, peh^ – the prat with the hat, “What Is a 'Munch'?”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet)",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet)",
          "text": "does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice",
          "text": "You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 October 31, Yus Gz (lyrics and music), “MunchK (Munch Remix)”",
          "text": "Catch lil' Ddot outside, a Blizzy gettin' dead\nAnd his mother a munch, she gon' gimme neck",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2022 December 5, Raud & Bril (lyrics and music), “No Munchies”",
          "text": "Hump real nice, I'm all in her goodies\nI don't eat the cake, I play with the pussy\nWaking up late so I take her to brunch\nShe said, “Eat the ass,“ she think I'm a munch",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2023 January 1, Uncle Murda (lyrics and music), “Rap Up 2022” (track 9), in Rap Up",
          "text": "How many kids this nigga Nick Cannon plan on fucking having\nIt's like he tryna get a hundred more girls pregnant\nAnd overturning Roe vs. Wade ain't helping\nYou moving like a munch we know what you about\nDrake unfollowed Ice Spice after he flew her out",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 February 10, Fiction Fake (lyrics and music), “Gut / Butterflies”",
          "text": "This year niggas know that I'm up\nMake you feel it inside of your gut\nPut my finger inside of her what\nI'm a ooter so don't try to front\nThat boy dirty, that nigga a munch\nThat boy dirty, he live in the Bronx",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 26, Phillino (lyrics and music), “Bad Bunny”",
          "text": "Got a piercing and sum tats, I had to tell u do your make up\nYou the type of white girl to have ur parents tell you wake up\nYou a snow bunny, you a hoe with snow money, you can go and be a munch while I fuck on old honeys",
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          "text": "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.”",
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
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    },
    {
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      "word": "knaske"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "mastigar ruidosamente"
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    {
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      "sense": "to chew",
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      "word": "ча́вкать"
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      "word": "schnabulieren"
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      "word": "devorar"
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      "code": "pt",
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          "ref": "2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice",
          "text": "You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 31, Yus Gz (lyrics and music), “MunchK (Munch Remix)”",
          "text": "Catch lil' Ddot outside, a Blizzy gettin' dead\nAnd his mother a munch, she gon' gimme neck",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 5, Raud & Bril (lyrics and music), “No Munchies”",
          "text": "Hump real nice, I'm all in her goodies\nI don't eat the cake, I play with the pussy\nWaking up late so I take her to brunch\nShe said, “Eat the ass,“ she think I'm a munch",
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          "ref": "2023 January 1, Uncle Murda (lyrics and music), “Rap Up 2022” (track 9), in Rap Up",
          "text": "How many kids this nigga Nick Cannon plan on fucking having\nIt's like he tryna get a hundred more girls pregnant\nAnd overturning Roe vs. Wade ain't helping\nYou moving like a munch we know what you about\nDrake unfollowed Ice Spice after he flew her out",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 10, Fiction Fake (lyrics and music), “Gut / Butterflies”",
          "text": "This year niggas know that I'm up\nMake you feel it inside of your gut\nPut my finger inside of her what\nI'm a ooter so don't try to front\nThat boy dirty, that nigga a munch\nThat boy dirty, he live in the Bronx",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 26, Phillino (lyrics and music), “Bad Bunny”",
          "text": "Got a piercing and sum tats, I had to tell u do your make up\nYou the type of white girl to have ur parents tell you wake up\nYou a snow bunny, you a hoe with snow money, you can go and be a munch while I fuck on old honeys",
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  "msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Luxembourgish",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "munch",
  "trace": "started on line 6, detected on line 30"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "munch"
  ],
  "section": "Luxembourgish",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "munch",
  "trace": "started on line 4, detected on line 30"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "munch"
  ],
  "section": "Luxembourgish",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "munch",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 30"
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/2466",
  "msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Luxembourgish]; cleaned text: Nominative",
  "path": [
    "munch"
  ],
  "section": "Luxembourgish",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "munch",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "munch"
  ],
  "section": "Luxembourgish",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "munch",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "munch"
  ],
  "section": "Luxembourgish",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "munch",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.