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crunchie
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??nt?i/
Noun
crunchie (plural crunchies)
- A somewhat granola- or cookie-like chocolate-covered sweet, served in bar form.
- 1935, Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, page 18:
- “Crunchie?” said Velvet, her face lighting. “I got them this morning.” “On tick still?” “Yes. She was cross but I swore we'd pay by Saturday.” In the gold paper was a chocolate stick. Beneath the chocolate was a sort of honeycomb, crisp and friable, something between biscuit and burnt sugar. Fry's chocolate crunchie.
- 2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, page 207:
- A different method and a different flavour from the usual brown crunchie. The recipe is easily doubled for a larger batch.
- 1935, Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, page 18:
- (US Vietnam era military slang, usually in the plural) An infantry soldier, a grunt.
- 2016, Micheal Clodfelter, Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier’s Memoir (?ISBN):
- To the subjective mind of the combat crunchie and cannon cocker, executing with his legs, sweat, and often his life, the grand designs [...]
- 2016, Micheal Clodfelter, Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier’s Memoir (?ISBN):
- (South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.
See also
- crunchies (“dry cat food in the form of small pellets”)
- crunchy (“hippie”)
References
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scrunchie
English
Alternative forms
- scrunchy
Etymology
scrunch +? -ie
Noun
scrunchie (plural scrunchies)
- A small elasticated ring of fabric placed around long hair to hold it in place behind the head.
- Synonym: gogo
- 2012, Linda Howard, To Die For: Number 1 in series, Hachette UK (?ISBN)
- When he had it all caught in one hand, he said, “What do I put around it?” “A scrunchie.” “A whatie?” “Scrunchie. Don't tell me you don't have a scrunchie.” “I don't even know what the hell a scrunchie is.” “It's what you use to hold up ponytails. Duh.”
Translations
Further reading
- scrunchie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- crunchies
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