English Dictionary

crunchie

/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/

noun

A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form. / (US Vietnam era military slang, usually in the plural) An infantry soldier, a grunt.

I love eating a crunchie after dinner.

意味（1）

A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.

“Crunchie?” said Velvet, her face lighting. “I got them this morning.” “On tick still?” “Yes. She was cross but I swore we'd pay by Saturday.” In the gold paper was a chocolate stick. Beneath the chocolate was a sort of honeycomb, crisp and friable, something between biscuit and burnt sugar. Fry's chocolate crunchie.

意味（2）

(US Vietnam era military slang, usually in the plural) 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 …

意味（3）

(South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.

[…]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.