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."See also
crunchies, , dry cat food in the form of small pellets crunchy, , hippieIs Crunchie a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
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Scrabble US
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Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
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Scrabble Global
YES
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
15
Words with Friends
18
The word Crunchie is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends