Masticate vs Munch - What's the difference?
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To chew (food).
To grind or knead something into a pulp.
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on .
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 17, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= To eat vigorously or with excitement.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
* Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
An act of eating.
(uncountable, slang) food.
(BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See .
* 1996 , "peh^ - the prat with the hat", What is a "Munch"?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sex.femdom )
* 2000 , "Anton", BDSM parties and munches'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sadistic )
As verbs the difference between masticate and munch
is that masticate is to chew (food) while munch is to chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on.As a noun munch is
a location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.masticate
English
Verb
(masticat)- The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.
Quotations
{{timeline, 1800s=1832 1892 1896, 1900s=1927}} * 1832 — , ch. 4 *: The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master’s orders. * 1892 — , ch. 12 *: 'By tasting it, to be sure,' said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth. * 1896 — , ch. 8 *: He resumed his meal. "I had no idea of it," he said, and masticated . * 1927-1929'— *: The vegetables were not to be cooked but merely grated fine, if I could not masticate them. * 2001 - , The Pickup *: The friends watch the two make their way between other habitué's masticating , drinking, crouched in a scrum of conversation...''See also
* mastic * masticable * mastication * masticator * masticatoryAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----munch
English
Verb
(es)TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992), 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.”}}
Revenge of the 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.}}
Noun
(es)- We had a good munch at the chippy.
- And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)
- does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches , in greece???