cringe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.

   “He cringed as the bird collided with the window.”

2. fiil To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
3. fiil To bow or crouch in servility.

   “[I]f they keepe their wits, yet they are accompted fooles by reaſon of their carriage, becauſe they cannot ride a horſe, which euery Clowne can doe; ſalute and court a Gentlewoman, carue at table, cringe and make congies, which euery common ſwaſher can doe, [...]”

4. fiil To act in an obsequious or servile manner.

   “Here the beggar accoſts me; had I appeared as himſelf, he had aſked nothing: but now he uncovers, he cringeth, he cries for relief.”

5. fiil To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).

   “[H]ow thriue you, howe periſh you, and they cringing in their neckes, like rattes, ſmothered in the holde, [...]”

6. fiil To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
7. isim A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).

   “He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.”

8. isim An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
9. isim A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
10. isim Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.

    “Bro... you just posted cringe”

11. sıfat Synonym of cringeworthy or uncool, inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment.

    “Brands trying to appeal to young people with memes is the most cringe thing ever.”

12. ünlem Stated in response to something cringeworthy.