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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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"(often with \"on\") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed."
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"sense": "to chew",
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"sense": "to chew",
"word": "mampfen"
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"sense": "to chew",
"word": "geräuschvoll kauen"
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"sense": "to chew",
"word": "kamu"
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"sense": "to chew",
"word": "knaske"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to chew",
"word": "mastigar ruidosamente"
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"lang": "Romanian",
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"word": "molfăi"
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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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"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "ahmia"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "fressen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "futtern"
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"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "schmausen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "schnabulieren"
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"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "devorar"
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"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "papar"
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"ref": "2014, Tommy Hawkins, Let's Get Dogs#!t, page 127",
"text": "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 having.",
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"ref": "1996, peh^ – the prat with the hat, “What Is a 'Munch'?”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet)",
"text": "And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)",
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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???",
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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",
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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",
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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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"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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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "žvakam",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "жвакам"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "densel"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "přežvykovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "žmoulat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "rouskuttaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "mampfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "geräuschvoll kauen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "kamu"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "knaske"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "mastigar ruidosamente"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "molfăi"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "plescăi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čávkatʹ",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "ча́вкать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "mljackati"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "žvakati"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "mumsa"
},
{
"code": "nmn",
"lang": "ǃXóõ",
"sense": "to chew",
"word": "gʘkxʻái"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "densel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "ahmia"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "fressen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "futtern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "schmausen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "schnabulieren"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "devorar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "papar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to eat vigorously",
"word": "mumsa"
}
],
"word": "munch"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ʌntʃ",
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"2": "enm",
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"name": "inh"
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{
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{
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"1": "\"to munch (food); chew audibly\"; > Modern English dialectal <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">mouch</i>"
},
"expansion": "(\"to munch (food); chew audibly\"; > Modern English dialectal mouch)",
"name": "gloss"
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{
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"2": "crunch"
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"name": "m"
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{
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"name": "noncog"
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{
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"t": "to bite; eat"
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"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!",
"type": "example"
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"A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected."
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"categories": [
"English colloquialisms"
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{
"text": "We had a good munch at the chippy."
}
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"glosses": [
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],
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"(colloquial) An act of eating."
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
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"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"ref": "2014, Tommy Hawkins, Let's Get Dogs#!t, page 127",
"text": "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 having.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Food."
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"links": [
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"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable, slang) Food."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"uncountable"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1996, peh^ – the prat with the hat, “What Is a 'Munch'?”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet)",
"text": "And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Anton, “BDSM Parties and Munches”, in alt.sadistic (Usenet)",
"text": "does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant."
],
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"BDSM"
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[
"casual",
"casual"
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[
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"meeting"
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
"(BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant."
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"BDSM",
"lifestyle",
"sexuality"
]
},
{
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"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Hot words between one and two years old",
"New York English",
"en:Music"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022 August 10, “Munch (Feelin' U)”, performed by Ice Spice",
"text": "You thought I was feelin' you? (Nah) That nigga a munch.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex."
],
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[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
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[
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"oral sex"
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],
"qualifier": "New York drill music",
"raw_glosses": [
"(New York drill music, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"derogatory",
"slang",
"uncountable"
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
"rhymes": "-ʌntʃ"
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"wikipedia": [
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