Munch vs Chow - What's the difference?
munch | chow |
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 )
(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
A Chinese breed of dog; the .
* 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 4, author=Jane Weinberg, title=First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=While we were talking, one of the chows , the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him. }}
A Chinese person.
* 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 11:
*:‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access , follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
(Mahjong) To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.
* 2007 , Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win , page 154:
As a verb 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.As a proper noun chow is
a common chinese surname.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???
See also
*chow
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from (chow-chow).Noun
(en-noun)- I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
- ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
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Derived terms
* chow downEtymology 2
From Chinese.Verb
(en verb)- while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.