# cronch
## English
### Verb

cronch (third-person singular simple present cronches, present participle cronching, simple past and past participle cronched)
* (now slang) Alternative form of crunch
** 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 287:Or on a Sunday afternoon, if I chanced to be at home, I heard the cronching of the snow made by the step of a long-headed farmer, who from far through the woods sought my house, to have a social “crack;” one of the few of his vocation who are “men on their farms;” who donned a frock instead of a professor’s gown, and is as ready to extract the moral out of church or state as to haul a load of manure from his barn-yard.
** 1864, Trial for Mal-practice. Frank P. Frisby, by His Next Friend, Pearson Noble, vs. Dr. Leonard Pratt, in the Circuit Court of Carroll County, State of Illinois, March 7th, 1864. Reported by John S. Cochrane, Rockford, Ill., Chicago, Ill.: […] C. S. Halsey. John W. Dean, […], page 278:One of them thought he had answered me triumphantly, when I asked him if wolves had bones. He said they cronched up bones and all.
** 1864 December, “City Cousins”, in J[ohn] Holmes Agnew, editor, The American Monthly Knickerbocker, volume LXIV, number 6, New York, N.Y.: […] the Office of the Magazine, […], page 569:On my bended knees I supplicated for death in any other form than that of bein’ cronched alive by the huge apish monster that was throwin’ himself with terrific force against the iron slide that balked him of his prey.
** 1896, Opie Read, chapter XVIII, in An Arkansas Planter, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, page 200:Into the deep shadow of a vine-entangled tree he turned his horse, and here he waited until he heard footsteps cronching in the sand, until he saw a man in the light that lay for a moment in the road, and then he cried: […]
** 1972, John Deck, Rancho Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, page 147:We moved the things in, and the snow made a cronching sound. I’ll never forget how quiet it was, and the cronching sound of the snow.
** 2018 April 10, Dustin Bailey, “Now you’ll know when you’re sailing with a developer crew in Sea of Thieves”, in PCGamesN‎:The developers of Sea of Thieves have been sailing their own seas incognito since the game’s launch, presumably cronching on bananas and thieving the hard-earned booty of their most dedicated players – at least, that’s what I’d be doing if I had intimate knowledge of my own game.
** 2018 December 1, Catherine Lundoff, editor, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), Queen of Swords Press, →ISBN:Once, Cinrak watched fascinated and horrified as Agnes casually cronched a shark, tearing them apart with terrifying efficiency and feeding the struggling beast into the concentric carnassial circles.
** 2020 October 23, Matthew Singer, “Watch Oregon Zoo Elephants Stomp the Crap Out of Some Pumpkins”, in Willamette Week‎:But even though this is a video of 8,000 pound animals squashing massive gourds, they do so with remarkable delicacy, producing such a satisfying cronching sound it almost qualifies as ASMR.
** 2021 April 22, Kristin Magaldi, “20 Things From Amazon That Small Dog Owners Swear By”, in BuzzFeed‎:A pack of cronch-worthy Milk-Bone treats made with bone marrow and calcium so your little doggo can have healthy teeth, bones, and a good behavior motivator.
** 2021 July 6, Carrot Quinn, The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 293:Cronch, cronch, cronch go our footsteps as they break through the crusts of salt. The cronching echoes in the thick air, which swallows all other sound.
** 2021 August 3, Tamara Jayne, “KFC Malaysia Is Finally Selling Crispy Chicken Skin On Its Own. CRISPY CHICKEN SKIN”, in Says‎, REV Media Group:Grab it while you can and happy cronching!
** 2021 October 29, Chris Stokel-Walker, “An earful: What’s the deal with Amazon trucks’ weird-ass backup sound?”, in Input‎, Bustle Digital Group:Input reached out to Amazon to find out when its trucks began cronching rather than beeping, but the retail giant ignored our requests for comment.
** 2021 November 24, Rachael Funnell, “Wild Bornean Orangutan Caught Killing And Eating A Slow Loris For First Time”, in IFLScience‎:The sounds of Molong cronching on the unfortunate loris's head attracted the attention of Kerry who, infant in tow, approached him and appeared to beg for scraps.
** 2022 June 8, Jacob Cristobal, “The Life Aquatic with OL Reign’s Phallon Tullis-Joyce”, in Sounder at Heart‎, Vox Media, archived from the original on 6 July 2022:Leaf slugs are green because they be cronching on algae and incorporate the algae’s chloroplasts into their own cerata where they continue to photosynthesize, a process called kleptoplasty.

### Interjection

cronch
* (now slang) Alternative form of crunch
** 1875 March, Emma E. Brewster, “Buried Alive”, in Demorest’s Monthly Magazine, page 92:Only another rock grappled and swung out, and the cronch, cronch of the shovels again.
** 1953, Ruth and Latrobe Carroll, “Beanie”, in Beanie and Tough Enough, Dover Publications, published 2015, page 42:He eats him cronch, cronch, cronch.
** 2019, Alex Donovici, Hoppy the Lark and the Silent Forest, →ISBN:“Now I only have to build three more houses so I earn 30 points, and I can buy ten bags of tzips for half the price!” Snowball said and stuffed his beak with some more tzips: cronch, cronch, cronch.
** 2019, AK Faulkner, Sigils of Spring (Inheritance; book seven), Ravensword Press, →ISBN:There was slobber on his hand, and his toast was missing. The cronch cronch from his side told him all he needed to know about where it had gone.
** 2020, C. B. Lee, Minecraft: The Shipwreck, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN:She quickly eats a couple steaks; Jake next to her is doing the same with a noisy cronch cronch cronch.
** 2021 July 6, Carrot Quinn, The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 293:Cronch, cronch, cronch go our footsteps as they break through the crusts of salt. The cronching echoes in the thick air, which swallows all other sound.
** 2021 August 11, Bec Heim, “Good boys: The funniest dog videos to get you through the day”, in Film Daily‎:Lucky for you, these two good dogs are here to remind you to eat your veggies. Also, they like the cronch, cronch, cronch of the lettuce.

### Noun

cronch (plural cronches)
* (now slang) Alternative form of crunch
** 2014, Krishna Saksena, “In the Neighbourhood”, in The Tales My Wrinkles Tell, Ocean Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 89:It seemed she was much occupied by her devotional services as was suggested by the sound of the cronch and the ringing of the bells every day.
** 2019 February 16, Sage Anderson, “10 adorable videos of turtles eating strawberries”, in Mashable‎:Love that cronch.
** 2020, Doing Things Media, Doggos Doing Things: The Hilarious World of Puppos, Borkers, and Other Good Bois, Running Press, →ISBN:hey there hope ya dont mind if I do a cronch (I luv the house salad)
** 2021, Saundra Mitchell, Josh Berk, Camp Murderface 2: Doom in the Deep, Harper, →ISBN:The sound of her boots fades from a cronch to a spspsp, and once again we’re alone.