cringometer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "But EastEnders has also just been blessed by the appearance of Walford Community Church. A group of intrepid church planters apparently sent from the planet Throg are meeting in Albert Square. Unfortunately they really do put the old cringometer in the red: a grinningly picture-perfect group in continuous ecstasy, they listen to the preacher with a rapt attention unknown in the history of Christianity."
- "It[’]s actually Chris himself being, well... a complete prick, I cringed from beginning to end. You can tell a lot from this, the fact that he loves his own voice for a start. It[’]s attached, turn off your cringometers though, this will break it."
- "Even for a foreigner like myself, the cringometer redlines now and then when it gets a bit "me me me"."