Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To grind with the teeth, with a crackling sound; craunch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make a crushing noise

Etymologies

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Compare Dutch schransen ("to eat greedily"), German schranzen. Compare crunch, scrunch.

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