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▪ I. munch, n.|mʌn(t)ʃ|
[f. munch v.]
a. An act of munching.
b. Something to eat; a meal (dial. and jocular).
a1816T. Thompson Canny Newcastle 53 Wiv a' the stravagin aw wanted a munch. 1897Blackmore Dariel xlvii, The unfortunate starver..tore the cake from Cator. In a moment it was gone, almost without a munch.
▪ II. munch, v.|mʌn(t)ʃ|
Forms: 4–6 monche, 6 manche, 6–7 mounch(e, (9 mounch), 7–8 maunch, 6– munch.
[App. onomatopœic (cf. craunch, crunch); possibly suggested partly by mange v.]
1. trans. To eat with continuous and noticeable action of the jaws. Said of persons audibly masticating food which offers resistance to the teeth, and of cattle chewing their fodder. Also with up.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 914 And some wolde monche [v.rr. muche, mucche, meche] hir mete alone. a1518Skelton Magnyf. 2009 Nowe must you monche mamockes and lumpes of brede. 1530Palsgr. 632/2, I manche, I eate gredylye, je briffe. Are you nat a shamed to manche your meate thus lyke a carter. 1540― Acolastus H iij b, I..mounche vp browne breade. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 35, I could munch your good dry Oates. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 315 Maunching a roll of bread. 1798J. Baillie Tryal v. ii, You munch it up as expeditiously as a bit of plum-cake. 1810Splendid Follies I. 180 As he mounched a large mouthful of macaroons. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. iii. (1894) 75 He sat..calmly munching bread and cheese.
transf.1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester III. 55 The baby, who had been munching my finger all the time we talked. 1871Rossetti Last Confession 521 He munched her neck with kisses.
2. intr. and absol. Also with away.
1530Palsgr. 640/1 It is no good fellowes touche to stande monching in a cornar whan he hath a good morcell. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. iii. 5 A Saylors Wife had Chestnuts in her Lappe, And mouncht, & mouncht, and mouncht. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian iii. ii, No, 'tis the Son of a Mare that's broken loose, and munching upon the Melons. 1883Gilmour Mongols (1884) 108 Buy so much fodder and let the animal munch away at it half the night.
b. To work the jaws up and down, as old toothless people do in talking.
1848Dickens Dombey xxvii, ‘Let me tell your fortune, my pretty lady’, said the old woman, munching with her jaws.
Hence ˈmunching vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1568Hist. Jacob & Esau ii. iv. D j, Dinner at this time a day? Nothing with thee, but dinner and mounching alway. 1823Byron Juan xi. lxvi, Where there is neither fruit nor flower Enough to gratify a bee's slight munchings. 1835Miss Sedgwick Linwoods (1873) I. 46 Raisons and almonds, which served..as munching for her companions. |