crunchy.
Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.
Meaning & usage
Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.
I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.
Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.
San Francisco was a very crunchy town.
Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama.
Of a chord, containing dissonant intervals.
Of an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.
Of a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English crunch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English crunchy From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola.
A pellet of dry cat food.
An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English crunch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English crunchy From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola.
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