Definitions For Crunchie

Noun

CRUNCHIE (plural CRUNCHIEs) 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. (South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white afrikaner.

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.Maureen Perkins, Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-west Binaries (2012), page 80: "The demeaning terms “rock spider,” [...] and “crunchie” were used to imply that white Afrikaners had hairy bodies; were buffoons, fools, or people who talk nonsense; and who ate dried mealie (maize) cobs, which resonates with the derogatory use of boer."