crunchern.

Brit.

/ˈkrʌn(t)ʃə/, U.S.

/ˈkrən(t)ʃər/

Etymology: < crunch v. + -er suffix¹.

a. A person who or thing which crunches on or through food, hard or brittle materials, etc.Frequently with modifying noun specifying the thing being crunched; cf. quot. 1982.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > crunching or munching > muncher

muncher1748

cruncher1832

1832 N.Y. Mirror 14 July 317/3 The fastidious race of peanut-eaters—which is now only occasionally seen in some solitary cruncher in the pit of the theatre.

1919 R. Hughes Cup of Fury 180 Davidge explained to her the cruncher that manicured thick plates of steel sheets as if they were finger-nails, or beveled their edges.

1982 Engin. News-Record 28 Oct. 12/2 (caption) A Swiss method for cleaning encrusted water mains... Swiss crust cruncher moves 10,000 ft an hour.

2006 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 25 June 63/1 Are you a sucker or a cruncher? According to a British survey, crunching your lollies could be a sign of stress.

b. colloquial. In plural: teeth. Also occasionally in singular.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]

teetha900

munpinsc1475

gams1508

peg1598

tusk1632

masticator1681

headrail1767

ivory1783

tombstone1809

dominos1828

dental1837

toothy-peg1840

fang1841

cruncher1859

chomper1884

teg1886

Hampstead Heath1887

pearly1914

gnasher1919

tat1919

pearly whites1935

chopper1937

1859 T. W. J. Connolly Romance of Ranks I. 115 A monster..with a mouth of prodigious capacity, and a set of molars and crunchers of alarming strength.

1915 Agric. Advertising Apr. 24/1 ‘A stitch in time’ in the form of a tube of good dentifrice may save nine molars, incisors and other garden varieties of the human cruncher.

2019 @francisxyzk 4 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 22 July 2020) An older man started randomly talking to me about his teeth, ‘I broke a back tooth on a chop-bone, I have to get it filled before it goes rotten—the secret to a long-life is keeping your own crunchers.’

2. colloquial. A critical or vital point; a difficult or decisive question or problem.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment

articlea1398

prick?c1422

crise?1541

push1563

in the nick1565

jump1598

concurrence1605

cardo1609

(the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610

edgea1616

climacterical1628

climacteric1633

in the nick-time1650

moment1666

turning-point1836

watershed1854

psychological moment1871

psychical moment1888

moment of truth1932

crunch1939

cruncher1947

high noon1955

break point1959

defining moment1967

midnight1976

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > important or decisive

advent1591

dénouement1752

tableau1808

upcome1824

crunch1939

cruncher1947

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult matter

business1827

sod1940

cruncher1947

ball-breaker1950

nutcracker1960

1947 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 30 July 13/4 Two Mason city batters were down when the cruncher came in the lucky 7th.

1965 Listener 1 July 12/2 But now comes the biggest snag, the cruncher. Satire, to be continually effective, must have a definite standpoint.

1978 G. Vidal Kalki vii. 171 Just as I got to the cruncher: how world population will double in thirty-two years, White interrupted me.

2018 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. From Bournemouth we had to go to Andover and then to the Isle of Man. That was the cruncher for Archie, that conglomeration of gigs were just too much.

3. colloquial. A person, machine, or system with a capacity for performing complex or lengthy operations with numerical data, computer code, etc. Chiefly with modifying noun specifying the area in which the operations are carried out, as budget cruncher, data cruncher, etc. Cf. number cruncher n.Sometimes derogatory when of a person, with the implication of unimaginative, machine-like activity; cf. number cruncher n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > one who works with numbers

accountera1400

arithmetician1557

reckonmaster1570

computator1591

summer1598

computer1613

counter-castera1616

computant1621

accountant1622

logistic1633

numerist1646

cipherera1648

arithmetic1652

computor1669

figure-caster1831

cruncher1971

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument

mesograph1579

mesolabe1579

quipu1581

rods1618

Napier's bones1647

Napier's rods1678

reckoner1757

counter1803

adding machine1822

operameter1830

virgulaa1831

adder1856

computer1869

arithmometer1876

perforation gauge1882

Cuisenaire rod1954

number line1964

number cruncher1966

cruncher1971

1971 Jrnl. Business 44 465/2 The authors raise a number of analytical issues concerning the general interpretation and use of mortgage rate series which many ‘data crunchers’ simply ignore or overlook.

1986 Washington Post 30 Dec. (Health Suppl.) 7/4 Budget-crunchers in the administration also fear that congressional Democrats may seek to fund such a plan not wholly from revenues.

1989 PC Mag. (U.K. ed.) July 115/1 (advt.) ZyIndex is a word cruncher's dream.

1998 S. King Bag of Bones viii. 109 He started when memory was stored on magnetic tape instead of in computer chips and a warehouse-sized cruncher called UNIVAC was state-of-the-art.

2018 @AndrewMLondon 3 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 21 July 2020) If you think developers are just code-crunchers, you've been talking to the wrong Dev (or talking to the right ones wrong).

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cruncher
释义	crunchern. Brit. /ˈkrʌn(t)ʃə/, U.S. /ˈkrən(t)ʃər/ Etymology: < crunch v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A person who or thing which crunches on or through food, hard or brittle materials, etc.Frequently with modifying noun specifying the thing being crunched; cf. quot. 1982. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > crunching or munching > muncher muncher1748 cruncher1832 1832 N.Y. Mirror 14 July 317/3 The fastidious race of peanut-eaters—which is now only occasionally seen in some solitary cruncher in the pit of the theatre. 1919 R. Hughes Cup of Fury 180 Davidge explained to her the cruncher that manicured thick plates of steel sheets as if they were finger-nails, or beveled their edges. 1982 Engin. News-Record 28 Oct. 12/2 (caption) A Swiss method for cleaning encrusted water mains... Swiss crust cruncher moves 10,000 ft an hour. 2006 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 25 June 63/1 Are you a sucker or a cruncher? According to a British survey, crunching your lollies could be a sign of stress. b. colloquial. In plural: teeth. Also occasionally in singular. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun] teetha900 munpinsc1475 gams1508 peg1598 tusk1632 masticator1681 headrail1767 ivory1783 tombstone1809 dominos1828 dental1837 toothy-peg1840 fang1841 cruncher1859 chomper1884 teg1886 Hampstead Heath1887 pearly1914 gnasher1919 tat1919 pearly whites1935 chopper1937 1859 T. W. J. Connolly Romance of Ranks I. 115 A monster..with a mouth of prodigious capacity, and a set of molars and crunchers of alarming strength. 1915 Agric. Advertising Apr. 24/1 ‘A stitch in time’ in the form of a tube of good dentifrice may save nine molars, incisors and other garden varieties of the human cruncher. 2019 @francisxyzk 4 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 22 July 2020) An older man started randomly talking to me about his teeth, ‘I broke a back tooth on a chop-bone, I have to get it filled before it goes rotten—the secret to a long-life is keeping your own crunchers.’ 2. colloquial. A critical or vital point; a difficult or decisive question or problem. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment articlea1398 prick?c1422 crise?1541 push1563 in the nick1565 jump1598 concurrence1605 cardo1609 (the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610 edgea1616 climacterical1628 climacteric1633 in the nick-time1650 moment1666 turning-point1836 watershed1854 psychological moment1871 psychical moment1888 moment of truth1932 crunch1939 cruncher1947 high noon1955 break point1959 defining moment1967 midnight1976 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > important or decisive advent1591 dénouement1752 tableau1808 upcome1824 crunch1939 cruncher1947 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult matter business1827 sod1940 cruncher1947 ball-breaker1950 nutcracker1960 1947 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 30 July 13/4 Two Mason city batters were down when the cruncher came in the lucky 7th. 1965 Listener 1 July 12/2 But now comes the biggest snag, the cruncher. Satire, to be continually effective, must have a definite standpoint. 1978 G. Vidal Kalki vii. 171 Just as I got to the cruncher: how world population will double in thirty-two years, White interrupted me. 2018 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. From Bournemouth we had to go to Andover and then to the Isle of Man. That was the cruncher for Archie, that conglomeration of gigs were just too much. 3. colloquial. A person, machine, or system with a capacity for performing complex or lengthy operations with numerical data, computer code, etc. Chiefly with modifying noun specifying the area in which the operations are carried out, as budget cruncher, data cruncher, etc. Cf. number cruncher n.Sometimes derogatory when of a person, with the implication of unimaginative, machine-like activity; cf. number cruncher n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > one who works with numbers accountera1400 arithmetician1557 reckonmaster1570 computator1591 summer1598 computer1613 counter-castera1616 computant1621 accountant1622 logistic1633 numerist1646 cipherera1648 arithmetic1652 computor1669 figure-caster1831 cruncher1971 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument mesograph1579 mesolabe1579 quipu1581 rods1618 Napier's bones1647 Napier's rods1678 reckoner1757 counter1803 adding machine1822 operameter1830 virgulaa1831 adder1856 computer1869 arithmometer1876 perforation gauge1882 Cuisenaire rod1954 number line1964 number cruncher1966 cruncher1971 1971 Jrnl. Business 44 465/2 The authors raise a number of analytical issues concerning the general interpretation and use of mortgage rate series which many ‘data crunchers’ simply ignore or overlook. 1986 Washington Post 30 Dec. (Health Suppl.) 7/4 Budget-crunchers in the administration also fear that congressional Democrats may seek to fund such a plan not wholly from revenues. 1989 PC Mag. (U.K. ed.) July 115/1 (advt.) ZyIndex is a word cruncher's dream. 1998 S. King Bag of Bones viii. 109 He started when memory was stored on magnetic tape instead of in computer chips and a warehouse-sized cruncher called UNIVAC was state-of-the-art. 2018 @AndrewMLondon 3 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 21 July 2020) If you think developers are just code-crunchers, you've been talking to the wrong Dev (or talking to the right ones wrong). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832
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