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plural crunchies
A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form. quotations examples
“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.
1935, Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, page 18
A different method and a different flavour from the usual brown crunchie. The recipe is easily doubled for a larger batch.
2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, page 207
(US Vietnam era military slang, usually in the plural) An infantry soldier, a grunt. quotations
To the subjective mind of the combat crunchie and cannon cocker, executing with his legs, sweat, and often his life, the grand designs […]
2016, Micheal Clodfelter, Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier’s Memoir
(South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner. quotations
[…] the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54