crunchy

crunch +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/

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• Rhymes: -ʌntʃi

crunchy (comparative crunchier, superlative crunchiest)

1. Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.

   I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.

2. (slang) Having sensibilities of a counter-culture nature lover or hippie; derived from the concept of crunchy granola.

   San Francisco is a very crunchy town.

• crispy

crunchy (plural crunchies)

1. (usually in the plural) A pellet of dry cat food.
   • 2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, →ISBN, page 147:

     Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it.

   • 2013, Sharon Lee; Steve Miller, Fledgling, Second Edition, →ISBN:

     He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly.

2. (military slang) an infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank)
   • 2009, James Wesley Rawles, Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse

     "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."

   • 2009, Chris Bunch, Allan cole, A Reckoning For Kings: A Novel of Vietnam

     Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did.

• crunchie (“chocolate sweet; infantry soldier; white Afrikaner”)