The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Munch \Munch\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Munched; p. pr. & vb.
n. Munching.] [Prob. akin to mumble: cf. also F. manger to
eat (cf. Mange), and m[^a]cher to cher (cf. Masticate).
See Mumble.]
To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews
provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.
[Formerly written also maunch and mounch.]
[1913 Webster]
I could munch your good dry oats. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "munching":
appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,
chewing, consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment,
dieting, dining, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony,
gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness,
hunger, ingestion, licking, manducation, mastication, messing,
nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy,
pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, regalement, relishing,
rumination, savoring, tasting, vegetarianism, wolfing
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
munching
n.
Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for thrills,
notoriety, or to annoy the system manager. Compare cracker. See also
hacked off.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
munching
Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for
thrills, notoriety or to annoy the system manager. Compare
cracker. See also hacked off.
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