crouchy

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English

Etymology

From crouch +‎ -y.

Adjective

crouchy (comparative crouchier, superlative crouchiest)

  1. Tending to crouch; hunched over.
    • 1913, Robert Shackleton, Unvisited Places of Old Europe, page 104:
      ...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...
    • 1919, Outing, volumes 73-74, page 11:
      They run very low, all crouchy, and so do panthers, which was a surprise to me.
    • 2005, Jenny Lee, What Wendell Wants: Or, How to Tell if You're Obsessed with Your Dog, page 102:
      So then all of sudden he starts doing that crouchy thing, you know, when he looks like a lion on the hunt.