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crouchy en · ADJ

Etymology

From crouch + -y.

Meanings

1. Tending to crouch; hunched over.
   • So then all of sudden he starts doing that crouchy thing, you know, when he looks like a lion on the hunt. 2005, Jenny Lee, What Wendell Wants: Or, How to Tell if You're Obsessed with Your Dog, page 102:
   • ...not a street of "show" poverty, to impress strangers, just as there is "show" iniquity, but of the real poverty, of snag-toothed, crouchy, hungry, gnarl-bodied people who step aside on the crowded walks... 1913, Robert Shackleton, Unvisited Places of Old Europe, page 104:
   • They run very low, all crouchy, and so do panthers, which was a surprise to me. 1919, Outing, volumes 73-74, page 11:

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