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Crunchy food is firm and makes a short, bright noise when you bite it — an apple, a carrot, toast, fried batter. Speakers usually mean this as a good thing: crunchy means fresh, not .
Crunchy foodCrunchy的食物 is firm and makes a short, bright noise when you bite it咬下去很脆，會發出清脆的短聲——an apple, a carrot, toast, fried batter像蘋果、紅蘿蔔、吐司、炸物的麵衣。 Speakers usually mean this as a good thing大家講這個字通常是稱讚：crunchy means fresh, not soggy crunchy代表新鮮，不是軟爛。
You can stretch it a little to other noisy, breaking textures, like crunchy snow or a leaf underfoot, though food is the home use.
You can stretch it a little to other noisy, breaking textures也可以稍微延伸到其他會發出碎裂聲的東西，like crunchy snow or a leaf underfoot像踩起來嘎吱響的雪或腳下的落葉，though food is the home use不過食物才是這個字的老家。
There is another, sense: a “crunchy” person likes natural food, simple living, and a bit of hippie style. That comes from crunchy , a breakfast cereal that became a joke-name for that way of life. The slang can be warm or teasing, and it is more American.
There is another, slangy sense還有另一個比較口語的意思：a "crunchy" person likes natural food, simple living, and a bit of hippie style一個「crunchy」的人喜歡天然食物、簡樸生活，還帶點嬉皮風格。 That comes from crunchy granola這是從crunchy granola脆穀片來的，a breakfast cereal that became a joke-name for that way of life一種早餐穀片，後來變成用來調侃那種生活方式的稱呼。 The slang can be warm or teasing這種口語用法可以是溫暖的，也可以是調侃的，and it is more American而且比較是美式用法。
The food sense is the one everyone knows.
The food sense is the one everyone knows食物那個意思才是大家都知道的。
組成From crunch + -y. Crunch is the sound and the verb; -y makes the describing word. The slang sense comes from crunchy granola.
同家族的字
- crunchthe sound and verb this adjective is built from
- crunchinessthe noun for this quality
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crunchyadj/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/
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Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.
- I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.
- Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out? Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?
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slangHaving counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.
- San Francisco was a very crunchy town.
- Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama.
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informalentertainmentlifestylemusicOf a chord, containing dissonant intervals.
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informalOf an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.
- This can result in the image looking very crunchy as pixels are skipped - especially if you choose the "Fit" option in the Magnification popup. Don't panic; your final image won't look that bad[…]
- […] pixels that look hideous on screen to a printing device. But if the pixels don't look seriously crunchy on the display, you're almost certainly undersharpening your images. The only reliable way to evaluate print sharpening is to[…]
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slanggamesgamingOf a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.
crunchynoun/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/
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A pellet of dry cat food.
- Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it.
- He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank).
- "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."
- Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。