Makes a loud, hard crunching sound or chews something with a loud noise.
From dialectal English 'craunch' or 'crunch,' possibly from Old English 'cranc' meaning to bend or curl, with influence from the sound itself (onomatopoeia).
The word 'crunch' is partially onomatopoetic—it was literally designed to sound like the noise of chewing hard food, which is why it became the perfect word for that exact sound.
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