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Definition: Crunchy |
CrunchyAdjective1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Crunchy floppy disk. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonyms: CrunchySynonyms: crisp (adj), firm (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crunchy |
| English words defined with "crunchy": buttercrunch. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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). |
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| Celery; biting; bite; vegetable; crunchy. | Crunch; munch; crispy; crunchy; . | ||
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| Speaker | Phrase(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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 97 | 33,269 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crunchy": crunchy-topped. | |
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| 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. |
| 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 скрипучий (creaky, grating, rasping, scrannel, scratchy, screechy, squeaky, strident), хрустящий (crisp, crispy). (various references) hrskav (crisp). (various references) cuscurrante, crujiente (creaking, creaky, crisp, crusty, rustling). (various references) knastrande (crackle, crackling, crepitation, crunch, snappy), knaprig (crisp). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crunchy" (pronounced kru"nkhē) |
| 4 | -u" n kh ē | bunchy, punchy. |
| 3 | -n kh ē | paunchy, raunchy. |
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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. | |
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