different between fringy vs cringy

English

fringe +? -y

fringy (comparative fringier, superlative fringiest)

cringe +? -y

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 . . .

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