"crunchy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/ Audio: En-au-crunchy.ogg [Australia] Forms: crunchier [comparative], crunchiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌntʃi Etymology: From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|crunch|y}} crunch + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} crunchy (comparative crunchier, superlative crunchiest)
  1. Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten. Categories (topical): Animal foods Synonyms: crispy Translations (likely to crunch): хрусткі (xrustki) (Belarusian), maragsip (Bikol Central), cruixent (Catalan), (cuì) (Chinese Mandarin), rapea (Finnish), croquant (French), crocante (Galician), triscante (Galician), knusprig (German), τραγανιστός (traganistós) (Greek), ropogós (Hungarian), croccante [masculine] (Italian), rangup (Malay), kakukaku (Maori), knasende (Norwegian), krasete (Norwegian Nynorsk), knasande (Norwegian Nynorsk), sprø (Norwegian Nynorsk), chrupki [masculine] (Polish), kruchy [masculine] (Polish), crocante (Portuguese), crocant [masculine, neuter] (Romanian), хрустя́щий (xrustjáščij) (Russian), crujiente (Spanish), krispig (Swedish), knaprig (Swedish), gevrek (Turkish), kıtır (Turkish), kıtır kıtır (Turkish), çıtır (Turkish), çıtır çıtır (Turkish), хрумкий (xrumkyj) (Ukrainian), хрусткий (xrustkyj) (Ukrainian), creisionllyd (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-crunchy-en-adj-7N-Y8ZGT Disambiguation of Animal foods: 26 10 8 11 31 14 Disambiguation of 'likely to crunch': 87 3 2 8
  2. (figurative, slang) Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome. Tags: figuratively, slang Categories (topical): Animal foods
    Sense id: en-crunchy-en-adj-5oioUsB6 Disambiguation of Animal foods: 26 10 8 11 31 14
  3. (music, informal) Of a chord: containing dissonant intervals. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-crunchy-en-adj-3~YDxoYn Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  4. Of an image: pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression. Categories (topical): Animal foods
    Sense id: en-crunchy-en-adj-JFnC6CJ~ Disambiguation of Animal foods: 26 10 8 11 31 14 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 8 10 8 16 30 28
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: crunchy-gravel drama, crunchy mama, crunchy mom, crunchy roll

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/ Audio: En-au-crunchy.ogg [Australia] Forms: crunchies [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌntʃi Etymology: From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|crunch|y}} crunch + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} crunchy (plural crunchies)
  1. (usually in the plural) A pellet of dry cat food. Tags: plural-normally Categories (topical): Animal foods
    Sense id: en-crunchy-en-noun-uluVTuv0 Disambiguation of Animal foods: 26 10 8 11 31 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 12 11 19 31 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 7 8 7 15 44 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 8 10 8 16 30 28
  2. (military slang) An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank). Tags: slang Categories (topical): Animal foods
    Sense id: en-crunchy-en-noun-NW99jSaj Disambiguation of Animal foods: 26 10 8 11 31 14 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 8 10 8 16 30 28 Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: crunchie (english: chocolate sweet; infantry soldier; white Afrikaner)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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”.",
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          "ref": "2007, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, After Effects Apprentice: Real-world Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist, Taylor & Francis",
          "text": "This can result in the image looking very crunchy as pixels are skipped - especially if you choose the \"Fit\" option in the Magnification popup. Don't panic; your final image won't look that bad[…]",
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          "ref": "2009 September 25, Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, Peachpit Press",
          "text": "[…] pixels that look hideous on screen to a printing device. But if the pixels don't look seriously crunchy on the display, you're almost certainly undersharpening your images. The only reliable way to evaluate print sharpening is to[…]",
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    "English countable nouns",
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌntʃi",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌntʃi/2 syllables",
    "en:Animal foods"
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    {
      "word": "crunchy-gravel drama"
    },
    {
      "word": "crunchy mama"
    },
    {
      "word": "crunchy mom"
    },
    {
      "word": "crunchy roll"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crunchier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crunchiest",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969 November 23, “Crunchy Frog”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 6",
          "text": "Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out?\nMr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?",
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        }
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        "Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten."
      ],
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          "crunch"
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        {
          "word": "crispy"
        }
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    },
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "San Francisco was a very crunchy town.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 10, Lauren Cochrane, quoting Jonah Weiner, “‘Cool kids want to dress like old crunchy people’: the fashion newsletter where wholesome is hip”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "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”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Kathleen Belew, “The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "The pipeline is real; individual people are indeed being recruited into the militant right. Some of them make this journey through “crunchy” online spaces into white-power content, as the sociologist Cynthia Miller-Idriss has documented in Hate in the Homeland.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "counter culture"
        ],
        [
          "hippie",
          "hippie"
        ],
        [
          "wholesome",
          "wholesome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, slang) Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a chord: containing dissonant intervals."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, informal) Of a chord: containing dissonant intervals."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, After Effects Apprentice: Real-world Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist, Taylor & Francis",
          "text": "This can result in the image looking very crunchy as pixels are skipped - especially if you choose the \"Fit\" option in the Magnification popup. Don't panic; your final image won't look that bad[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 September 25, Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, Peachpit Press",
          "text": "[…] pixels that look hideous on screen to a printing device. But if the pixels don't look seriously crunchy on the display, you're almost certainly undersharpening your images. The only reliable way to evaluate print sharpening is to[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of an image: pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression."
      ],
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        [
          "pixelated",
          "pixelated"
        ],
        [
          "grainy",
          "grainy"
        ],
        [
          "blocking",
          "blocking"
        ],
        [
          "oversharpening",
          "oversharpening"
        ],
        [
          "low resolution",
          "low-resolution"
        ],
        [
          "lossy",
          "lossy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌntʃi"
    },
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      "audio": "En-au-crunchy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/En-au-crunchy.ogg/En-au-crunchy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/En-au-crunchy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "xrustki",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "хрусткі"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "maragsip"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "cruixent"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cuì",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "脆"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "rapea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "croquant"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "crocante"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "triscante"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "knusprig"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "traganistós",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "τραγανιστός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "ropogós"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "croccante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "rangup"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "kakukaku"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "knasende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "krasete"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "knasande"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "sprø"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chrupki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kruchy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "crocante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "crocant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xrustjáščij",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "хрустя́щий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "crujiente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "krispig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "knaprig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "gevrek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "kıtır"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "kıtır kıtır"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "çıtır"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "çıtır çıtır"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xrumkyj",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "хрумкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xrustkyj",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "хрусткий"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "likely to crunch",
      "word": "creisionllyd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crunchy"
}

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        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "english": "chocolate sweet; infantry soldier; white Afrikaner",
      "word": "crunchie"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, page 147",
          "text": "Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Fledgling, Second Edition",
          "text": "He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A pellet of dry cat food."
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        "(usually in the plural) A pellet of dry cat food."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English military slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2009, James Wesley Rawles, Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse",
          "text": "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Chris Bunch, Allan cole, A Reckoning For Kings: A Novel of Vietnam",
          "text": "Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank)."
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          "military"
        ],
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          "slang"
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          "tanker"
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        [
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          "tank"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military slang) An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank)."
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      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌntʃi"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-crunchy.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/En-au-crunchy.ogg/En-au-crunchy.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/En-au-crunchy.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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