Eating and Drinking Vocabulary:

Nibble

Meaning: Eat slowly and gently with small bites.

Example: She nibbled some cheese and crackers before lunch

Graze

Meaning: You will find this word in eating and drinking vocabulary very common 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. This word is commonly used in eating and drinking vocabulary.

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.