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munch | chow |

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)
  • 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= 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.”}}
  • To eat vigorously or with excitement.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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)
  • A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
  • * Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
  • An act of eating.
  • We had a good munch at the chippy.
  • (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 )
  • And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)
  • * 2000 , "Anton", BDSM parties and munches'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sadistic )
  • does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches , in greece???

    See also

    *

    chow

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from (chow-chow).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
  • I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  • A Chinese breed of dog; the .
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
  • ‘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.’
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=March 4, author=Jane Weinberg, title=First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , 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!’
  • Derived terms
    * chow down

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, South Africa) To eat.
  • Etymology 2

    From Chinese.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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:
  • while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.