Dictionary Definition

Munch

1 Norwegian painter (1863-1944) [syn: Edvard Munch]

2 a large bite; "he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich" v : chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks" [syn: crunch]

User Contributed Dictionary

to chew with a grinding, crunching sound
to eat vigorously or with excitement
- Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!

A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
- Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
An act of eating.

We had a good munch at the chippy.

Munch may refer to:

Edvard Munch (1863–1944), a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker best known for his work The Scream
- Edvard Munch (film), 1973 biographical film written and directed by Peter Watkins
- Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, dedicated to the work and life of the painter Edvard Munch

Other people called Munch:

Ernsto Munch (1876–1946), a plant physiologist who proposed the Pressure Flow Hypothesis to explain the mechanism of phloem translocation
Gustafa Munch-Petersen (1912–1938), Danish writer and painter
John Q. Munch, a fictional detective character played by the actor Richard Belzer on several television shows
P.A. Munch (1810–1863), a Norwegian historian who did groundbreaking work on Norway's medieval period
Peter Munch (b. 1978), a Danish musician
Peter A. Munch (1908-1984), a Norwegian-American sociologist
Peter Rochegune Munch (1870–1948), Danish foreign minister from 1929 to 1940 and one of the founders of the Danish Social Liberal Party

Other uses of the word Munch:

Cookie Monster Munch, a video game released in 1983 for the Atari 2600
Maximal munch, a computer programming principle that as much of the input as possible should be processed
Mighty Munch, a corn snack available in Ireland made by Tayto
Monster Munch, a corn snack in UK and Ireland produced by Walkers
Monster Munch (C64 computer game) (1984), a Pacman-type game for the Commodore 64 computer
Munch bunch, a series of children's books written by British author Denis Bond
Munch Township, Minnesota, United States of America
munch (BDSM), a low-pressure social gathering for people involved in or interested in BDSM
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, the third game made by Oddworld Inhabitants (Microsoft Xbox)
Slang term meaning "To Eat"