英和和英

形容詞

scrinchy (comparative more scrinchy, superlative most scrinchy)

1. (informal) scrunchy; creased or wrinkled
   • 2001, Robert Dunn, Pink Cadillac (page 147)

     The bright-browed man chuckled, then did his scrinchy eyeball thing again.

   • 2005, Rowing News (volume 11, number 12, page 94)

     She is making that scrinchy face again […]

2. (informal) stingy, miserly
   • 2000, Merle Drown, The Suburbs of Heaven (page 19)

     And to me alone he said, "Just meeting the taxes ain't easy."
     "Don't be scrinchy, Father," Lisa said. "Momma needs for that stone to be there."

3. (informal) poky, small, cramped
   • 2017, Linda McCullough Moore, An Episode of Grace

     Jonathan's dad, Tom, lives in this scrinchy, little farmhouse in the country, lives here with his two monster hounds, who lie now sleeping at Ruby's feet.