喜樂美語
  1. 1酥脆的、喀滋喀滋的（食物咬下去會響，多半是稱讚。另有口語：走天然有機、環保風的人，來自 crunchy granola）

    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 . You can stretch it a little to other noisy, breaking textures, like crunchy snow or a leaf underfoot, though food is the home use. 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. The food sense is the one everyone knows.

From the word’s history

From crunch + -y.

crunch（嘎吱咬）加 -y。

Wiktionary

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

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crunchyadj/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/

  • 1

    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?
  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    informalentertainmentlifestylemusicOf a chord, containing dissonant intervals.

  • 4

    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[…]
  • 5

    slanggamesgamingOf a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.

crunchynoun/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    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.

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