different between munch vs mutch

English

Etymology

From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare crunch). Compare also Old French mangier, mengier (“to bite; eat”), of similar sound and meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Verb

munch (third-person singular simple present munches, present participle munching, simple past and past participle munched)

1. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed — often used with on.

2. To eat vigorously or with excitement.

Derived terms

• muncher
• munchy

Translations

Noun

munch (plural munches)

1. A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
   • Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!
2. (colloquial) An act of eating.

   We had a good munch at the chippy.

3. (uncountable, slang) Food.
4. (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See Munch (BDSM).
   • 1996, "peh^ - the prat with the hat", What is a "Munch"? (on newsgroup alt.sex.femdom)

     And thanks to the stunning paxie for getting it all together and creating the best munch ever in the history of munches. :)

   • 2000, "Anton", BDSM parties and munches (on newsgroup alt.sadistic)

     does anyone know any BDSM parties and munches, in greece???

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• muench, munnech

Etymology

From Middle High German manec, from Old High German manag. Cognate with German manch, Dutch menig, English many.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mun?/

Pronoun

munch

1. many

Declension

Derived terms

• munchmol

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mutse, from amutse, from Late Latin almucia (“almuce”); compare amice, mozzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

  Homophones: much

Noun

mutch (plural mutches)

1. (now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed). [from 15th c.]
2. A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. [from 16th c.]
   • 1901, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, 2007, Echo Library, page 66,

     But of all the congregation, none enjoyed the singing more than the dear old women who sat in the front seats near the pulpit, their quiet old faces looking so sweet and pure under their snow-white “mutches.”

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 15,

     And […] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns […]

   • 1986, Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, page 74,

     So Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that?s awfae-lookin? things on your heids”, he says. “Tak? they mutches aff. You?ll no? need them now because your faither?ll no? see you.” So they tak? the mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa?.

Derived terms

• night mutch
• bonet mutch
• double mutch
• under-mutch
• hair-mutch
• mutchless
• kell mutch
• laced mutch