英和和英

発音

• IPA: /skɹʌnt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ʌntʃ

動詞

scrunch (third-person singular simple present scrunches, present participle scrunching, simple past and past participle scrunched)

1. (transitive) To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.

   He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.

   • 1793–1799, Robert Townson, Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology, page 154:

     […] and the scrunching of ashes under our feet I have often observed to be disagreeable to many.

   • 1800, Walter Besant, James Rice, With Harp and Crown, page 828:

     Then I put them under my heel, and scrunched them up, every one.

   1. (with object "one's face") To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.

      He scrunched his face at his wife's confounding request.

2. Alternative form of scranch.

参考

• scrunchie
• scrunch up

名詞

scrunch (plural scrunches)

1. A crunching noise.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     The watchers knew already that the door was fastened and looked for the unknown to produce a key. Instead, there was a sudden scrunch of iron, a splintering of wood, and the door swung loosely open.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “scrunch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.