munch
/mʌntʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To eat vigorously or with excitement.
noun
A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
Colloquial; Countable
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Jim was munching on a biscotti."
- "At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”"
- "Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!"
- "Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food."
- "Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!"
- "We had a good munch at the chippy."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: monchen
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /mʌntʃ/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.