🍟 Good for snacking 😋 Wanting snacks

munchy

7.5

Feeling slightly hungry and wanting to eat a snack

adjective
/ˈmʌn.tʃi/

Slang

: picoteando

I'm feeling a bit munchy this afternoon.

So you get that almost munchy feeling, but without having had the cannabis itself.

Examples

I always get munchy in the afternoon and look for something to snack on.
After the movie, everyone felt munchy and ordered a pizza to share.
She was a bit munchy before dinner, so she grabbed a handful of nuts.
The kids are always munchy after school.
After skipping breakfast, I felt a bit munchy around noon and grabbed a granola bar.
She always keeps a bag of popcorn handy for when she gets munchy in the afternoon.
Late at night, I often get munchy and crave something to snack on while watching TV.

Synonyms

hungry

vsmunchy

∞ 1.0

Feeling a need to eat

is milder and often limited to snack desire between meals

peckish

vsmunchy

5 7.3

Feeling a little hungry and wanting a snack

focuses more on wanting snacks between meals rather than general small hunger

snacky

vsmunchy

Informal

1 5.0

Wanting to eat small things between meals

is a stronger urge for snacks, more urgent than mild wanting

How Hungry

starving

1 1.4

hungry

∞ 1.0

munchy

Slang

7.5

peckish

5 7.3

Surface Forms

munchy positive

Morphology

munchy = munch (semi-transparent) = munch + y

The adjective is clearly built from 'munch' + '-y', but the sense 'feeling slightly hungry / having the munchies' is colloquial and idiomatic, which may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Munchy comes from the sound word munch ('to chew') with the ending -y, and it is related to the familiar word munchies for a snack craving. So when you feel munchy you have a small hunger or a strong wish for snacks.