crunchie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. An infantry soldier, a grunt. plural-normally
    — To the subjective mind of the combat crunchie and cannon cocker, executing with his legs, sweat, and often his life, the grand designs […]
  3. A white Afrikaner. South-Africa,derogatory,ethnic,offensive,slang
    — […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

词形变化

crunchies plural

词汇关系

相关词
crunchies crunchy

词源

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.
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