crunchie
noun/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/
Etymology
From crunchy. Use to refer to infantrymen in Vietnam is from their "crunching" through the jungle brush. Use to refer to white Afrikaners is perhaps from their supposed tendency to eat crunchy food.
Definitions
A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.
- A different method and a different flavour from the usual brown crunchie. The recipe is easily doubled for a larger batch.
An infantry soldier, a grunt.
- To the subjective mind of the combat crunchie and cannon cocker, executing with his legs, sweat, and often his life, the grand designs […]
A white Afrikaner.
- […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for crunchie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA