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crouchy

adjective

  1. crouch-backed
  2. crowded, populated with people
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɹaʊ.t͡ʃi/

adj

Etymology: From crouch + -y.

  1. Tending to crouch; hunched over.

    ...not a street of "show" poverty, to impress strangers, just as there is "show" iniquity, but of the real poverty, of snag-toothed, crouchy, hungry, gnarl-bodied people who step aside on the crowded walks...

    They run very low, all crouchy, and so do panthers, which was a surprise to me.

name

Etymology: From Crouch + -y.

  1. A nickname for somebody with the surname Crouch.

    "Crouch. It was Crouch who realized it." "Okay. So then what? After Moncrieff dies, Crouchy says to the kid — what?"

    Crouch suffered a badly broken nose during last Saturday's 4-0 win over Sheffield United. He's fit to play against United tomorrow, but is clearly uncomfortable with the knock. "Crouchy is training and obviously wants to play in both these games," explained Benitez.