Munch

Definition: Munch

Munch

Noun

1. Norwegian painter (1863-1944).

2. A large bite; "he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich".

Verb

1. Eat lightly; "She just nibbles at her food".

2. Chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Munch" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Munch \Munch\, transitive and intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Munched; present participle verb or noun Munching.]. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Munch

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Crosswords: Munch

Now get out of my way, I got garbage to munch. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Ooh! Time to munch an early lunchin', hum dee dum dum dum. Oh, I wouldn't climb this tree if a Pooh flew like a bee, but I wouldn't be a bear then, so I guess I wouldn't care then (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Xavier Atencio)

Me, Grimlock, want to munch metal (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman)

Edvard Munch (1974)

P. Munch (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Graphic Works of Edvard Munch (reference)

• Munch (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Barber's Adagio / Munch, Galway, Boston SO Strings (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Norway

Artists Edvard Munch and Christian Krogh were Ibsen's contemporaries. (references)

Norway

Munch drew part of his inspiration from Europe and in turn exercised a strong influence on later European expressionists. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "Munch": Edvard Munch ♦ munch away ♦ munch on smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

mbllaçit (chew, masticate), përtyp (champ, chew, crunch, masticate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضغ بصوت عال (crunch), ‏لاك, ‏قضم (bite, bite into, bite nails, bite off, biting, champ, chew, crush, gnaw, nibble, prey, snap, worry at), ‏قرش (crush, piaster), ‏طحن بصوت عال, ‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏أكل بشهية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

жвакам, дъвча (champ, chaw, chew, grind, masticate, mouth). (various references)

Chinese 

津津有味地嚼 (Munched, munching). (various references)

Czech

žvýkat (chew, masticate), žmoulat. (various references)

Farsi 

ملچ ملوچ کردن , چیزهای جویدنی , جویدن (Champ, Chaw, Chew, Masticate). (various references)

Finnish

mutustaa, pureskella (chew, masticate). (various references)

French

mastiquer, croquer. (various references)

German

mampfen (chomp, crunch). (various references)

Greek 

μασουλίζω (mump), τρώω κάτι τραγανιστό, τραγανίζω (craunch, crunch, scranch, scrunch). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקסוס (chew, turn sour), להעלות גרה (regurgitate, ruminant, ruminate). (various references)

Hungarian

rágicsál, csámcsogva rág (to munch). (various references)

Indonesian

mengunyah (chew). (various references)

Italian

masticare (chew, masticate, mumble), sgranocchiare (crunch, nibble, scrunch), biascicare (slobber, splutter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼりぼり (crunch), むしゃむしゃ (crunch). (various references)

Manx

caigney (chew, file, gnaw, mumble, rasp). (various references)

Pig Latin

unchmay.(various references)

Portuguese

mastigar ruidosamente (crunch, scrunch). (various references)

Romanian

mânca cu zgomot, plescãi (click, flop), clefãi (champ). (various references)

Russian 

чавкать (chomp, slurp), жевать (chew, masticate, ruminate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mljackati (champ, slush, squish), grickati (nibble). (various references)

Spanish

mascar (chew, mumble). (various references)

Swedish

snaska på, mumsa (nibble). (various references)

Thai

เคี้ยวเสียงดัง (chomp), อาหาร (board, diet, eatable, eating, edible, fare, feed, feeder, food, grub, meal, meals, nosh, nosh-up). (various references)

Turkish

sesli yemek, katur kutur yemek, hart hurt çiğnemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

гризти (champ, gnaw, nag, nib, nibble, scrunch), жувати (champ, chaw, chew, masticate, ruminate). (various references)

manducare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Munch": munched, muncher, munchers, munches, munchies, munching, munchkin, munchkins. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Munch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dunch, manch, Marnoch, mench, menche, Mencl, menh, mensh, minch, mincy, Mmunch, mnch, moenich, Monchs, Moncy, munchy, Mundhir, munk, Munka, munshi, murch, ninch, nunc, ounch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chum, much.

-2 letters: cum, hum, hun, mun.

-3 letters: hm, mu, nu, uh, um, un.

+2 letters: munched, muncher, munches, unmacho.

+3 letters: chipmunk, chumming, chumping, crumhorn, dutchman, dutchmen, insomuch, mouching, muchness, mulching, munchers, munchies, munching, munchkin, mutchkin, naumachy.

+4 letters: bronchium, chipmunks, churchman, churchmen, crumhorns, eunuchism, homunculi, humectant, ichneumon, lunchmeat, lunchroom, lunchtime, munchkins, mutchkins, naumachia, smutching, unmatched.

+5 letters: avouchment, catechumen, chauvinism, chumminess, eunuchisms, homunculus, humanistic, humectants, hummocking, ichneumons, luftmensch, lunchmeats, lunchrooms, lunchtimes, muchnesses, multichain, naumachiae, naumachias, naumachies, schlumping, technetium, uncharming, unemphatic, unrhythmic.