crunchy
/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.22 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.
Slang
adj
Of an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.
Informal
adj
Of a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy."
- "Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out? Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?"
- "The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread. On Wednesday night, I opted for sheveed polo, a simpler and quicker dill rice, but I can’t wait to nail that crunchy tahdig tonight."
- "San Francisco was a very crunchy town."
- "Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama."
- "Weiner says being in Oakland “allows you to encounter different ideas” in terms of style “like crunchy, old people in the organic produce section of the grocery store, wearing very Bay Area specific outfits”."
Etymology
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.
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.