Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Making a crunching or cracking sound, as when chewed; crisp: crunchy fresh vegetables.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- crunch + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For a time I had considered not shaving my legs and becoming what we called crunchy and almost took a job the year after college to study capuchins and squirrel monkeys in Guyana, where I would have had to bathe in the river and pick my food from the trees.”
“A thinly veiled attempt at being authentic on the outside, when the inside had turned all crunchy from the attention.”
The Huffington Post: Sarah Granger: Authenticity in Politics: Splat-Crunch vs. Crunch-Splat
“When you are deer hunting and you sit and wait (most people do) you want to sit and be quiet so you would move any dry leaves or if you hunt in crunchy snow you would want to move everything out of the way.”
“The best part of refrigerator pickles is they remain crunchy for months.”
The Huffington Post: Meathead Goldwyn: No Fuss Kosher Dill Pickled Green Tomatoes
“Once you get to the center, it is smooth, creamy, and a little crunchy from the tempura.”
“It was mostly just slightly crunchy from the seed part of the quinoa -- the "strings" must have dissolved into the dough (thank goodness).”
“I always go for the eel/avocado, and spicy tuna or salmon (and crunchy is better!).”
“For those diners who are calorie-conscious, we have just the thing for you too: Zlamushka of Zlamushka's Spicy Kitchen dishes up her Zucchini Koftas - tiny bites of shredded cooked zucchini, rolled in crunchy sesame seeds and baked, not fried, then served with rice and a velvety curry.”
“Everyone loves these since they're so simple and are a bit crunchy from the flax.”
“The problem is that the beans are "crunchy" -- as if they had not been boiled long enough.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crunchy’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Walking in the snow
If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, I would suggest this other list.
snow, snotsicle, scarf, snowsuit, mittens, gloves, hat, layers, boots, eyelashes freezin..., chemical heat pack, coveralls and 31 more...
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words to describe peanut butter
crunchy, creamy, sticky, low-fat, sugar-free, spreadable, extra-crunchy, flexible, gooey, peanuty, smooth, natural and 4 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
mortgage, fiddling, rage, kick, stroke, dodge, hunch, scratch, covetous, rank, trickle, budget and 179 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Words
Words I like
flapdoodle, fungible, edify, malarkey, hearsay, persnickety, tchotchke, penultimate, flummery, stultify, dun, complain and 53 more...
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jannygirl's Words
definitely, scrumptious, smooth, rocket, memory, tangible, groove, massage, drastic, sweet, silly, reciprocal and 78 more...
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list of funny sounding brands
coke, aldi, dell, ludwig, epiphone, telstra, alfred's, jb's, marbig, windows, apple, crunchy and 17 more...
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brundlefly's Words
shrike, afghan, spelunking, scuttle, boatswain, eschatological, merkin, sassafras, etruscan, doppelganger, trench, cromulent and 43 more...
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copydiva's Words
solution, lovely, super, joy, fluffy, music, dry, hopeful, forgiveness, aerate, flip-flop, cheers and 8 more...
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Ad Speak
This list will house words I encounter on packaging and in advertisements.
microwaveable, phenylketonurics, phenylalanine, bioplastic, compostable, biocompostable, all natural, resealable, cholesterol, organic, serving, guaranteed and 57 more...
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w4-02/08
panhandle, crunchy, fulfill, venture, interfering, itch, scratch, shakes, come after, familiar, plunge, triumph and 15 more...
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