crunchie
Meanings
noun
- A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.
- An infantry soldier, a grunt.
- A white Afrikaner.
Pronunciation
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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.
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