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Munch vs Nibble - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between munch and nibble

is that munch is to chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on while nibble is to eat with small, quick bites.

As nouns the difference between munch and nibble

is that munch is a location or restaurant where good eating can be expected while nibble is a small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.

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

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    nibble

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
  • (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
  • Derived terms
    * nibbly

    Verb

    (nibbl)
  • To eat with small, quick bites.
  • The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
  • * 2 November 2014 , Alex James in (The Guardian), The day I came face-to-face with a tiger
  • *:Giant parrots nibbled seed from the children's fingertips and my sister peeled a couple of satsumas for the lemurs.
  • * 1911 , (Rudyard Kipling), Big Steamers
  • *:"For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble ,
  • *:The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve,
  • *:They are brought to you daily by all us Big Steamers--
  • *:And if anyone hinders our coming you'll starve!"
  • To bite lightly.
  • He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.
  • To consume gradually.
  • * 11 May 2011 , Ann Carrns in The (New York Times), Prepaid Cards Subject Jobless to Host of Fees
  • *:A report out this week from the National Consumer Law Center lays out a host of ways in which banks nibble away at jobless benefits with fees the center called “junk.”
  • Etymology 2

    From nibble', punning on the homophony of '''byte''' and ' bite

    Alternative forms

    * nybble

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.http://foldoc.org/nibble
  • * 1993 , Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering (page 287)
  • That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero.

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