Eating and Drinking Vocabulary
Nibble
Meaning: Eat slowly and gently with small bites.
Example: She nibbled some cheese and crackers before lunch
Graze
Meaning: This word is commonly used in eating and drinking vocabulary that expresses to eat small portion of the food throughout the whole day.
Example: Jam was grazing on chips all noon
Bite
Meaning: To hold and cut some piece of food with teeth directly to eat. You can use this word for such food items that can be hold in hand and keep enough size to put in mouth to cut it with front teeth like pizza, sandwich, cookie, cake, etc.
Example: She gulped the pizza in few bites
Munch
Meaning: To chew something in a noisy way
Example: She is munching snacks.
Scarf
Meaning: To eat something in a hungry way
Example: She scarfed down my pizza when I was in washroom.
Devour
Meaning: To eat greedily
Example: She devoured three sandwiches in a while.
Starving
Meaning: Too much hungry
Example: Many NGOs are working to feed starving children in poor regions.
Gulp
Meaning: To eat and swallow some food very quickly and in a large quantity
Example: Zaki told him not to gulp his sandwich.
Swallow
Meaning: To take food into stomach through mouth
Example: Always chew your food well before swallowing it.
Quaff
Meaning: To drink a large amount of (liquid food such as bear, juice) quickly
Example: She quaffed three pint of ale at pub.
Chew
Meaning: To cut food into pieces using teeth before swallowing it
Example: It looks very bad to chew food with open mouth.
Lick
Meaning: to take some food or liquid into mouth with the help of tongue, to touch a tongue on something to get its taste
Example: She licked her fingers after taking meal with hands.
Guzzle
Meaning: to drink some liquid such as bear or ale very quickly and in a large amount, to drink greedily
Example: She guzzled three glass of soda after lunch.
Choke
Meaning: to become unable to breath freely when something like food gets stuck in throat that cause stoppage in breathing
Example: Guzzling a glass of liquor continually can cause choking.
Vomit
Meaning: The liquid or food that comes out from stomach through mouth due to sickness or some other reason
Example: blood vomiting caused her death.
Munch
Meaning: To chew something in a noisy way, to chew food that causes noise
Example: She was munching cookies during class time.
Masticate
Meaning: to chew food to make it more soften
Example: The goats were masticating their food.
Crunch
Meaning: loud sound of something being crushed under teeth, to chew food with crushing noise
Example: She crunched a packet of crispy chips.
Slurp
Meaning: to drink or eat some food with a sucking sound, a sucking noise while eating or drinking like a sip of tea
Example: Usually many people slurp tea from a cup.
Spit
Meaning: To throw or eject food or something from the mouth, to throw saliva out from mouth as an expression of contempt
Example: She spited the morsel when she observed crunching sound of something from it.
Pig out:
Meaning: eat a lot or eat greedily
Example: She always remains in search of party to pig out some special meal.
Dogs’ breakfast
Meaning: (a slang) an unhealthy and casual meal, expression for disapproval for meal
Example: I asked you to prepare lunch not a dog’s breakfast.
Eat like a bird
Meaning: to eat very little, to eat a small portion of food
Example: She eats like a bird in school parties.
Eat like a horse
Meaning: to eat a lot
Example: He ate like a horse on my wedding party.