crunchn.adj.

Brit.

/krʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S.

/krən(t)ʃ/

Etymology: < crunch v.

A. n.

a. An act, or the action, of crunching.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > crunching

crunch1836

scrunch1857

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > crunching or munching

munching1568

craunch1806

crunch1836

scrunching1869

munch1897

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. i. 3 If you will not take us, the sharks shall—it is but a crunch, and all is over.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvii. 361 Listening to the half-yielding crunch of the ice beneath.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia ii The hippo..caught him in its mouth and killed him by one crunch.

b. A crisis; a decisive point, event, confrontation, etc.; a show-down; esp. in to come to the crunch: to come to the point; to reach a show-down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment

articlea1398

prick?c1422

crise?1541

push1563

in the nick1565

jump1598

concurrence1605

cardo1609

(the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610

edgea1616

climacterical1628

climacteric1633

in the nick-time1650

moment1666

turning-point1836

watershed1854

psychological moment1871

psychical moment1888

moment of truth1932

crunch1939

cruncher1947

high noon1955

break point1959

defining moment1967

midnight1976

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > important or decisive

advent1591

dénouement1752

tableau1808

upcome1824

crunch1939

cruncher1947

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > come to the crunch or critical point

to come to a head1655

to come to the crunch1960

1939 W. S. Churchill in Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 14/6 Whether Spain will be allowed to find its way back to sanity and health..depends..upon the general adjustment or outcome of the European crunch.

1948 W. S. Churchill Second World War I. i. xvii. 243 When the imminence of an attack on Czechoslovakia became clear, Beck demanded an assurance against further military adventures. Here was a crunch.

1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1002/1 What Sir Winston Churchill would have called the ‘crunch’ of the economic battle has arrived.

1957 Economist 19 Oct. 200/1 No one is anxious to be the spearhead of the next wages struggle; and..the crunch may not be reached until some time after the turn of the new year.

1960 Times 21 July 15/5 Even the holders of Government bonds turn out to be chiefly philanthropic institutions and trade unions when it comes to the crunch.

1963 ‘W. Haggard’ High Wire v. 52 When it came to the crunch de Fleury wasn't to be relied on.

1969 ‘J. Fraser’ Cock-pit of Roses xv. 111 Now the crunch. ‘How do you know, Andrew?..’ No reply.

c. The principal problem; a sticking-point, an issue which gives rise to conflict or crisis. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > point of greatest difficulty

knotc1386

one's (or the) last (or utter) shifta1604

hump1914

crunch1970

1970 Telegraph (Brisbane) 20 Feb. 11/5 The chihuahua has vanished... The crunch is that the chihuahua belongs to the boss's wife.

1970 New Scientist 23 July 171/1 The real crunch is that there may never be any profits from the RB211-2Z.

1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 5/1 First crunch for the case against Mark was that he didn't write the story.

1985 C. McCullough Creed for Third Millennium v. 135 The real crunch had become the length of time the ground remained unfrozen, but in future years it was likely to become the amount of rain.

2. plural. Small pieces resulting from crunching. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments > small

fritters1686

smithereens1795

crunches1839

smithers1845

shivereens1855

jam-rag1869

1839 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch (rev. ed.) xxiii. 295 [He] had got his pipe smashed to crunches.

B. adj.

Critical, decisive, crucial; involving or arising from a crisis. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] > critical or decisive

climacterical1587

critical1649

crucial1830

make-or-break1961

crunch1974

1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 4/3 Townley continues to vote Liberal on most crunch issues.

1977 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 17 July 1/10 The president of Houston Oil and Mineral..will arrive..today for crunch talks on the controversial Oaky Creek coal project.

1981 G. Boycott In Fast Lane ix. 74 If we were to save the match it would have to be through our own efforts, and the crunch period was approaching fast.

1985 Times 19 Jan. 1/2 I believe we are in crunch times.

Draft additions September 2020

crunch time n. a crucial or decisive stage in a process or undertaking; the point at which a decision must unavoidably be made, typically before a deadline or event.

ΚΠ

1933 SaMoJaC (Santa Monica Junior Coll.) 20 Sept. The vice president of this institution could have been seen around last Thursday crunch-time smoking a pipe.

1968 Leader-Times (Kittanning, Pa.) 7 Feb. 20/2 (headline) It's crunch time at the White House.

2020 Evening Gaz. (Middlesborough) (Nexis) 6 Mar. They have to wake up to the situation and do something about it. It's crunch time.

Draft additions January 2005

= abdominal crunch n. at abdominal adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises

breathing1605

breather1802

arm swing1859

setting-up drill1862

grasshopper march1884

lunge1889

push-up1897

sit-up1900

pull-up1901

deep-breathing1904

bag-punching1927

press-up1928

setting-up exercise1935

pullover1936

bear crawl1937

burpee1939

knee-bend1941

leg raise1944

dip1945

uddiyana1949

squat thrust1950

lateral1954

pull-down1956

aquacise1968

step-up1973

abdominal crunch1981

power walking1982

crunch1983

gut-buster1983

stomach crunch1986

1983 Daily Herald (Chicago) 6 July (Fun & Fitness News Suppl.) 5/2 The exercises that I, personally, recommend are crunches, bent leg sit-ups, leg lifts, and the Nautilus abdominal machine.

1996 She Apr. 39/1 If you're a complete beginner or have back problems, do crunches instead—these are just like sit-ups but you come up only a third of the way.

2004 J. Dickinson Everything about me is Fake xxi. 203 I'd done enough crunches at the gym to crunch a little at the buffet line.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

crunchv.

/krʌnʃ/

Etymology: A recent variation of cranch, craunch v., perhaps intended to express a more subdued and less obtrusive sound, perhaps influenced by association with crush, munch.

a. transitive. To crush with the teeth (a thing somewhat firm and brittle); to chew or bite with a crushing noise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (transitive)] > crunch or with teeth

crash1530

craunch1632

crunch1814

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > munch or crunch

gruse?c1225

maungec1400

muncha1425

champ1530

crash1530

cham1531

chank1567

scranch1620

grouze1628

craunch1632

crump1647

denticate1799

crinch1808

crunch1814

scrunch1825

chomp1848

chump1854

1814 Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. Crunch, Cronch, and Cranch, to crush an apple, etc. in the mouth. North.

1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 201 ‘While I was quietly crunching my crust.’

1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 202 A herd of swine crunching acorns.

b. intransitive or absol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > crunch or munch

munch1530

munchion1611

craunch1637

chomp1645

crump1760

munge1770

crunch1856

1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xvi. 26 Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. x. 101 Our appetites were good; and..we crunched away right merrily.

a. transitive. To crush or grind under foot, wheels, etc., with the accompanying noise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > make weak [verb (transitive)] > make brittle > make crisp > crush crisp substance

crump1789

crisp1824

crumple1837

scranch1845

crunch1849

1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 41 A sound of heavy wheels crunching a stony road.

1873 Spectator 23 Aug. 1069/1 You crunch little heaps of salt at every step.

b. intransitive or absol.

ΚΠ

1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 452 The animal's hoofs crunch on the stones and gravel.

c. intransitive for passive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crunch

crunch1801

crinch1808

scrunch1844

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. viii. 126 No sound but the wild, wild wind, And the snow crunching under his feet!

3. intransitive. To advance, or make one's way, with crunching.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise

squatter1786

clatter1810

creak1834

crunch1853

craunch1857

chuff1899

squish1952

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crunch > make one's way

crunch1853

craunch1857

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxiii. 189 The sound of our vessel crunching her way through the new ice is not easy to be described.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. iv. 38 Our brig went crunching through all this jewelry.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 109 As we crunched and crawled up the long gravelly hills.

Derivatives

crunched adj.

ΚΠ

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pilgrims of Rhine xix. 184 The crunched boughs..that strewed the soil.

ˈcrunching n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iii. 76 A crunching of wheels..became audible on the wet gravel.

1890 Cent. Mag. Apr. 916/2 Passing a rim of crunching cinder.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	crunch
释义	crunchn.adj. Brit. /krʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /krən(t)ʃ/ Etymology: < crunch v. A. n. 1. a. An act, or the action, of crunching. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > crunching crunch1836 scrunch1857 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > crunching or munching munching1568 craunch1806 crunch1836 scrunching1869 munch1897 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. i. 3 If you will not take us, the sharks shall—it is but a crunch, and all is over. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvii. 361 Listening to the half-yielding crunch of the ice beneath. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia ii The hippo..caught him in its mouth and killed him by one crunch. b. A crisis; a decisive point, event, confrontation, etc.; a show-down; esp. in to come to the crunch: to come to the point; to reach a show-down. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment articlea1398 prick?c1422 crise?1541 push1563 in the nick1565 jump1598 concurrence1605 cardo1609 (the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610 edgea1616 climacterical1628 climacteric1633 in the nick-time1650 moment1666 turning-point1836 watershed1854 psychological moment1871 psychical moment1888 moment of truth1932 crunch1939 cruncher1947 high noon1955 break point1959 defining moment1967 midnight1976 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > important or decisive advent1591 dénouement1752 tableau1808 upcome1824 crunch1939 cruncher1947 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > come to the crunch or critical point to come to a head1655 to come to the crunch1960 1939 W. S. Churchill in Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 14/6 Whether Spain will be allowed to find its way back to sanity and health..depends..upon the general adjustment or outcome of the European crunch. 1948 W. S. Churchill Second World War I. i. xvii. 243 When the imminence of an attack on Czechoslovakia became clear, Beck demanded an assurance against further military adventures. Here was a crunch. 1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1002/1 What Sir Winston Churchill would have called the ‘crunch’ of the economic battle has arrived. 1957 Economist 19 Oct. 200/1 No one is anxious to be the spearhead of the next wages struggle; and..the crunch may not be reached until some time after the turn of the new year. 1960 Times 21 July 15/5 Even the holders of Government bonds turn out to be chiefly philanthropic institutions and trade unions when it comes to the crunch. 1963 ‘W. Haggard’ High Wire v. 52 When it came to the crunch de Fleury wasn't to be relied on. 1969 ‘J. Fraser’ Cock-pit of Roses xv. 111 Now the crunch. ‘How do you know, Andrew?..’ No reply. c. The principal problem; a sticking-point, an issue which gives rise to conflict or crisis. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > point of greatest difficulty knotc1386 one's (or the) last (or utter) shifta1604 hump1914 crunch1970 1970 Telegraph (Brisbane) 20 Feb. 11/5 The chihuahua has vanished... The crunch is that the chihuahua belongs to the boss's wife. 1970 New Scientist 23 July 171/1 The real crunch is that there may never be any profits from the RB211-2Z. 1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 5/1 First crunch for the case against Mark was that he didn't write the story. 1985 C. McCullough Creed for Third Millennium v. 135 The real crunch had become the length of time the ground remained unfrozen, but in future years it was likely to become the amount of rain. 2. plural. Small pieces resulting from crunching. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments > small fritters1686 smithereens1795 crunches1839 smithers1845 shivereens1855 jam-rag1869 1839 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch (rev. ed.) xxiii. 295 [He] had got his pipe smashed to crunches. B. adj. Critical, decisive, crucial; involving or arising from a crisis. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] > critical or decisive climacterical1587 critical1649 crucial1830 make-or-break1961 crunch1974 1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 4/3 Townley continues to vote Liberal on most crunch issues. 1977 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 17 July 1/10 The president of Houston Oil and Mineral..will arrive..today for crunch talks on the controversial Oaky Creek coal project. 1981 G. Boycott In Fast Lane ix. 74 If we were to save the match it would have to be through our own efforts, and the crunch period was approaching fast. 1985 Times 19 Jan. 1/2 I believe we are in crunch times. Draft additions September 2020 crunch time n. a crucial or decisive stage in a process or undertaking; the point at which a decision must unavoidably be made, typically before a deadline or event. ΚΠ 1933 SaMoJaC (Santa Monica Junior Coll.) 20 Sept. The vice president of this institution could have been seen around last Thursday crunch-time smoking a pipe. 1968 Leader-Times (Kittanning, Pa.) 7 Feb. 20/2 (headline) It's crunch time at the White House. 2020 Evening Gaz. (Middlesborough) (Nexis) 6 Mar. They have to wake up to the situation and do something about it. It's crunch time. Draft additions January 2005 = abdominal crunch n. at abdominal adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises breathing1605 breather1802 arm swing1859 setting-up drill1862 grasshopper march1884 lunge1889 push-up1897 sit-up1900 pull-up1901 deep-breathing1904 bag-punching1927 press-up1928 setting-up exercise1935 pullover1936 bear crawl1937 burpee1939 knee-bend1941 leg raise1944 dip1945 uddiyana1949 squat thrust1950 lateral1954 pull-down1956 aquacise1968 step-up1973 abdominal crunch1981 power walking1982 crunch1983 gut-buster1983 stomach crunch1986 1983 Daily Herald (Chicago) 6 July (Fun & Fitness News Suppl.) 5/2 The exercises that I, personally, recommend are crunches, bent leg sit-ups, leg lifts, and the Nautilus abdominal machine. 1996 She Apr. 39/1 If you're a complete beginner or have back problems, do crunches instead—these are just like sit-ups but you come up only a third of the way. 2004 J. Dickinson Everything about me is Fake xxi. 203 I'd done enough crunches at the gym to crunch a little at the buffet line. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crunchv. /krʌnʃ/ Etymology: A recent variation of cranch, craunch v., perhaps intended to express a more subdued and less obtrusive sound, perhaps influenced by association with crush, munch. 1. a. transitive. To crush with the teeth (a thing somewhat firm and brittle); to chew or bite with a crushing noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (transitive)] > crunch or with teeth crash1530 craunch1632 crunch1814 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > munch or crunch gruse?c1225 maungec1400 muncha1425 champ1530 crash1530 cham1531 chank1567 scranch1620 grouze1628 craunch1632 crump1647 denticate1799 crinch1808 crunch1814 scrunch1825 chomp1848 chump1854 1814 Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. Crunch, Cronch, and Cranch, to crush an apple, etc. in the mouth. North. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 201 ‘While I was quietly crunching my crust.’ 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 202 A herd of swine crunching acorns. b. intransitive or absol. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > crunch or munch munch1530 munchion1611 craunch1637 chomp1645 crump1760 munge1770 crunch1856 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xvi. 26 Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. x. 101 Our appetites were good; and..we crunched away right merrily. 2. a. transitive. To crush or grind under foot, wheels, etc., with the accompanying noise. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > make weak [verb (transitive)] > make brittle > make crisp > crush crisp substance crump1789 crisp1824 crumple1837 scranch1845 crunch1849 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 41 A sound of heavy wheels crunching a stony road. 1873 Spectator 23 Aug. 1069/1 You crunch little heaps of salt at every step. b. intransitive or absol. ΚΠ 1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 452 The animal's hoofs crunch on the stones and gravel. c. intransitive for passive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crunch crunch1801 crinch1808 scrunch1844 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. viii. 126 No sound but the wild, wild wind, And the snow crunching under his feet! 3. intransitive. To advance, or make one's way, with crunching. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise squatter1786 clatter1810 creak1834 crunch1853 craunch1857 chuff1899 squish1952 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crunch > make one's way crunch1853 craunch1857 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxiii. 189 The sound of our vessel crunching her way through the new ice is not easy to be described. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. iv. 38 Our brig went crunching through all this jewelry. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 109 As we crunched and crawled up the long gravelly hills. Derivatives crunched adj. ΚΠ 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pilgrims of Rhine xix. 184 The crunched boughs..that strewed the soil. ˈcrunching n. and adj. ΚΠ 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iii. 76 A crunching of wheels..became audible on the wet gravel. 1890 Cent. Mag. Apr. 916/2 Passing a rim of crunching cinder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adj.1836v.1801
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