Unch vs Munch - What's the difference?
unch | munch |
(crossword puzzles) An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).
* 1994 September 24, Ross Beresford , "symp10.zip - Crossword Grid Editor for MS Windows 3.1", comp.archives.msdos.announce , Usenet,
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* 2005 November 17, Colin Blackburn , "Re: 75 Years of the Times Crossword - quick review", rec.puzzles.crosswords , Usenet,
* 2006 , Nikki Katz, Zen and the Art of Crossword Puzzles , Adams Media, ISBN 1593375638, pages 66–67,
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 nouns the difference between unch and munch
is that unch is an unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both) while munch is a location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.As a verb munch is
to chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on.unch
English
Noun
(es)- The Sympathy Crossword Grid Editor supports:
- o flagging of lights outside a configurable unch range
- From 1933 onwards the grids were standard grids. Then, for some reason, there was a blip in the late 1940s, a couple of the grids from that era had double unches and double checking.
- The bars and multitude of black squares are common in British puzzles because they allow unchecked letters (called unches')—or letters that don't need to cross with another answer.... There are rules regarding the ' unches , and traditionally every other letter in a solution should be checked with another letter.
Anagrams
*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???
