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 theteeth , and with a crackling sound; tocraunch .
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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