crouchy
/kɹaʊ.t͡ʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to crouch; hunched over.
Example Sentences
- ""Crouch. It was Crouch who realized it." "Okay. So then what? After Moncrieff dies, Crouchy says to the kid — what?""
- "Crouch suffered a badly broken nose during last Saturday's 4-0 win over Sheffield United. He's fit to play against United tomorrow, but is clearly uncomfortable with the knock. "Crouchy is training and obviously wants to play in both these games," explained Benitez."
- "During that year our fitness co-ordinator was Robert Crouch. Crouchy had been running the Adelaide University gym for years and was to be a massive support to me later on, when I broke my leg in Sri Lanka in 1999."
- "Crouchy, don't go any further until I see the boss."
- "What you doing 'ere, Crouchy? This house belongs to my family and you ain't welcome."
- "...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..."
Etymology
From Crouch + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
crouchier (comparative)
crouchiest (superlative)