munch

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To eat something steadily, often noisily, with the mouth closed.

   She sat munching an apple while she read her book.

2. 2
   noun

   An act of eating, especially a snack (informal).

   We stopped for a quick munch before the film started.

From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).

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