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Crunchy

Definition: Crunchy

Crunchy

Adjective

1. Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple"; "crunchy lettuce".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Crunchy

DomainDefinition

Computing

Crunchy floppy disk. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Crunchy

Synonyms: crisp (adj), firm (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Crunchy

English words defined with "crunchy": buttercrunch. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Crunchy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Crunchy, Munchy Cookies (reference)

  • Nate The Great And The Crunchy Christmas (Nate The Great, paper) (reference)

  • The All New Captain Underpants Extra Crunchy Book of Fun (Captain Underpants) (reference)

  • The case of the crunchy peanut butter (reference)

  • The Munchy Crunchy Bug Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Crunchy

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Glasswort - Salicornia europaea. This plant is found at the lower end of the high salt marsh. It is an edible plant and is crunchy with a salty flavor. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Crunchy".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Celery; biting; bite; vegetable; crunchy.Crunch; munch; crispy; crunchy; .
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Spoken Usage: Crunchy

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Sure, we pay lip service to cooperation and altruism, but in the real world, those values are ignored like crunchy peanut butter at a nursing home.

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Usage Frequency: Crunchy

"Crunchy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crunchy" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%9733,269

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Crunchy

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "crunchy": crunchy-topped.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crunchy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

black crunchy

28

crunchy oriental salad

3

little blue crunchy things

13

bread crunchy crust

2

crunchy

8

bran corn crunchy quaker

2

blac crunchy

5

cake crunchy honey munchy

2

crunchy frog

5

reeses crunchy cookie cup

2

coleslaw crunchy

5

american crunchy foods.com

2

crunchy snacks

4

crunchy food good.com mm

2

crunchy pea salad

4

crunchy granola suite

2

crunchy dill pickle

4

crunchy technology

2

cole crunchy slaw

4

affair crunchy dragon good in meddle not taste

2

crunchy peanut butter

3

bar crunchy granola recipe

2

crunchy salad

3

cobbler crunchy peach recipe

2

coleslaw crunchy recipe

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Crunchy

Language Translations for "crunchy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مقدد (bacon, slit), ‏متفتت. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скриптящ, хрупкав (crisp). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

嘎吱嘎吱'嚼. (various references)

   

Czech

  

chroupavý, křupavý (crisp, crusty), křehký (breakable, brittle, crisp, delicate, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, inconstant, lissom, shattery, tender, weak). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

knapperig (brittle, crisp), croquant (brittle, crisp). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kraketa (brittle, crisp). (various references)

   

French

  

croquant (crisp), qui crisse sous les pieds. (various references)

   

German

  

knusprig (crisp, crisply, crispy, crusty, luscious). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τραγανόσ (cartilaginous, crisp). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פריך (brittle, crisp, crushable, fragile). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ropogós (cooked to a crisp, crisp, crispy, scrunchy, short, snap), csikorgó (creaking, grating, jarring, squeaky, strident). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

garing (cool, crisp, dry and crispy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

さお竹 (bamboo pole, blowfly maggots used as fishing bait, crisp, decoy, to makedo, to split finely), じゃじゃ馬 (derog. term for Asian women working in Japan, restive horse, splashing water sound). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さくさく (crisp), じゃりじゃり . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unchycray

   

Russian 

  

скрипучий (creaky, grating, rasping, scrannel, scratchy, screechy, squeaky, strident), хрустящий (crisp, crispy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hrskav (crisp). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuscurrante, crujiente (creaking, creaky, crisp, crusty, rustling). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

knastrande (crackle, crackling, crepitation, crunch, snappy), knaprig (crisp). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kıtır kıtır (brittle, crisp, crusty), gevrek (brittle, crisp, crispy, fragile, friable, rusk, short, tender), çıtırdak, çıtır çıtır (crisp, crispy, short, with a crackling sound). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Crunchy

Misspellings

"Crunchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brunchy, carancho, chunichi, cranachs, Cranch, crechy, crounch, Cruach, cruchy, crunchie, cruncky, crunky, cruntch, culchie, kerrunch, krunch, ronchy, scrunchie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Crunchy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "crunchy" (pronounced kru"nkhē)
4-u" n kh ēbunchy, punchy.
3-n kh ēpaunchy, raunchy.

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Anagrams: Crunchy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-h-n-r-u-y"

-1 letter: crunch.

-2 letters: churn, curch, yucch.

-3 letters: curn, yuch.

-4 letters: cry, cur, hun, run, urn.

-5 letters: nu, uh, un.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-h-n-r-u-y"
 

+2 letters: crunchily.

 

+3 letters: unchurchly.

 

+5 letters: churchianity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Spoken
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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