单词 | maunge |
释义 | maungev. Now English regional and Scottish. transitive. To eat; to devour greedily and noisily; to munch, to chew. Also intransitive. Cf. munge v.2 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > munch or crunch gruse?c1225 maungec1400 muncha1425 champ1530 crash1530 cham1531 chank1567 scranch1620 grouze1628 craunch1632 crump1647 denticate1799 crinch1808 crunch1814 scrunch1825 chomp1848 chump1854 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ix. 245 Þei han mangid [v.rr. Imaunget; B. maunged; C. manged] ouer muche, þat makiþ hem grone ofte. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 82 Yea the lad Ascanius wel I might haue slaughtered, after At tabil of the father too set thee chield to be maunged. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Maunge, to gormandize. Linc. 1866 H. Jackson Gilbert Rugge I. 157 It'll maunge up the house one o' these days, I 'spects. 1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 92 Mawnge, to chew; masticate; munch. DerivativesΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 107 (MED) We myster no sponys here at oure mangyng. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 56 Feare not thee manging fortold of burdseat in hunger, Thee fats thee passage shal smooth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1400 |
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