scrunkly
/ˈskɹʌŋkli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Cute in a quirky, scruffy, or dishevelled way.
Example Sentences
- "he is so scrunkly; i love him"
- "LOL It's ok, even gurus have to sleep once in a while!! Stops the skin going scrunkly, not to be confused with crunkly :-p xx"
- "2 year difference, i just got scrunklier"
- "The Cuphead Rolling Dice Game got the scrunkliest artstyle ever, strange how this came out in 2021 yet no one scanned the art (?) well here's a 🧵over these 4 and boss cards:"
- "My only halfway serious critique is that elements of Cultic's positively scrunkly low-fi style don't quite do it for me. Now, the environments, the sprites, the chunky voxel decorations? They're all great. The textures evoke the DOS era perfectly. It feels authentic, while pushing a bit beyond '90s limitations in physics and scope. It's the post-processing that goes too far."
- "Birders will be like ouhhh the scrunkly blorbo 😭 and then show you a dude who looks like this"
Etymology
Popularized by images shared across social media in late 2020 and early 2021, captioned: "awww the scrunkly 🥰🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 double tap now if you'd scrunkly the when😆". Perhaps a blend of scrunched + crinkly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskɹʌŋkli/
- British English: /ˈskrʌŋkli/