munch

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Me: Yummy, yummy. * munch munch munch* Rosalind (blushing):

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  1. intransitive verb To chew food audibly or with a steady working of the jaws.
  2. intransitive verb To eat with pleasure.
  3. transitive verb To chew or eat (food) audibly or with pleasure.

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  • “Munch munch,” he growls, allowing his saurian body-brain to put in a word What do you need to sleep for? —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • Me: * munch munch munch* Rosalind: How does it taste? —  IGN Complete
  • Me: Yummy, yummy. * munch munch munch* Rosalind (blushing): —  IGN Complete
  • I can't wait to taste it. * munch munch** munch munch** gulp* Mmm … It's absolutely delicious. —  IGN Complete
  • Okay, it looks really good. * munch munch* Egan: How is it? —  IGN Complete
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munch:   munched ·  munching ·  munches
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English monchen.

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  1. Formerly also maunch, mounch; from Middle English munchen, variant of manchen, maunchen, variant of maungen, mangen, eat: see mange, v. For the relation of munch to maunch, cf. that of crunch to craunch.
  2. from munch, v.
 

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