Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place. · An act of eating. · Food. · A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed. · To eat vigorously or with excitement.
From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).
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- Inherited-form mentionmonchenenm
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