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Meaning
Verb
●
To
cower
,
flinch
,
recoil
,
shrink
, or
tense
,
as in
disgust
,
embarrassment
, or fear.
●
To experience an inward
feeling
of
disgust
,
embarrassment
, or
fear
; (
by extension
) to feel very embarrassed.
●
To
bow
or
crouch
in servility.
●
To
act
in an
obsequious
or
servile
manner.
●
To
draw
(a
body part
)
close to
the body; also, to
distort
or
wrinkle
(the
face
, etc.).
●
To
bow
or
crouch
to (someone) in
servility
; to
escort
(someone) in a
cringing
manner.
Noun
●
A
gesture
or
posture
of
cringing
(recoiling or shrinking).
●
An
act
or
disposition
of
servile
obeisance.
●
In British English:
A
crick
(“painful
muscular
cramp
or
spasm
of some part of the body”).
⚠️
Things,
particularly
online
content
, which would cause an
onlooker
to
cringe
from
secondhand
embarrassment.
Adj
⚠️
Inducing
awkwardness
or
secondhand embarrassment
;
lame
,
uncool
, cringy.
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Rhymes
Ging
Tinge
Minge
Hinge
Ginge
Winge
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Binge
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