crouchy
See also: Crouchy
English
Etymology
From crouch + -yCategory:English terms suffixed with -y#CROUCHY.
Adjective
crouchy (comparative crouchier, superlative crouchiest)Category:English lemmas#CROUCHYCategory:English adjectives#CROUCHYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CROUCHYCategory:Pages with entries#CROUCHYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CROUCHY
- Tending to crouch; hunched over.
- 1913, Robert Shackleton, Unvisited Places of Old Europe, page 104:
- ...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...Category:English terms with quotations#CROUCHY
- 1919, Outing, volumes 73-74, page 11:
- They run very low, all crouchy, and so do panthers, which was a surprise to me.Category:English terms with quotations#CROUCHY
- 2005, Jenny Lee, What Wendell Wants: Or, How to Tell if You're Obsessed with Your Dog, page 102:
- So then all of sudden he starts doing that crouchy thing, you know, when he looks like a lion on the hunt.Category:English terms with quotations#CROUCHY