Munching

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]