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cringy
English
Alternative forms
- cringey
Etymology
cringe +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??nd?i/
Adjective
cringy (comparative cringier or more cringy, superlative cringiest or most cringy)
- Characterised by causing feelings of embarrassment; embarrassing.
- Synonym: cringeworthy
- Cringing; cowardly.
- 1929, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women
- Possibly the thing had feelings of its own; there was no knowing. Just the little cringy sort that might inveigle itself . . .
- 1929, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women
Translations
Anagrams
- crying
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cringe
English
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle English crengen (“to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”) [and other forms], from Old English *cren?an, *cren??an, *crengan (“to cause to fall or turn”), the causative of crin??an (“to yield; to cringe; to fall; to die, perish”), from Proto-Germanic *krangijan? (“to cause to fall; to cause to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *kringan?, *krinkan? (“to fall; to turn; to yield”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gren??- (“to turn”)) + *-jan? (suffix forming causatives with the sense ‘to cause to do (the action of the verb)’ from strong verbs). The English word is cognate with Danish krænge (“to turn inside out, evert”), Dutch krengen (“to careen, veer”), Scots crenge, creenge, creinge, crienge (“to cringe; to shrug”), Swedish kränga (“to careen; to heel, lurch; to toss”), and West Frisian kringe (“to pinch; to poke; to push; to insist, urge”); and is a doublet of crinkle.
The noun and adjective are derived from the verb.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /k??nd??/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Verb
cringe (third-person singular simple present cringes, present participle cringing, simple past and past participle cringed)
- (intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
- (intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- crinch (dialectal)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- crouch
- wince
Noun
cringe (countable and uncountable, plural cringes)
- (countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
- (countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
- (countable, Britain, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
- (uncountable, slang) Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
Translations
Adjective
cringe (comparative more cringe, superlative most cringe)
- (slang) Inducing awkwardness or embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
Translations
Notes
References
Anagrams
- cering, genric, rec'ing
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English cringe.
Noun
cringe m (invariable)
- (neologism) cringe
Adjective
cringe
- (neologism) cringy
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