scroonch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɹʊnt͡ʃ/, /skɹuːnt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊntʃ, -uːntʃ

Verb

scroonch (third-person singular simple present scroonches, present participle scroonching, simple past and past participle scroonched)

1. to crouch
   • 1950, The Hopkins Review:

     He scroonched down flat on his belly and wiggled right under the fence

2. to scrunch
   • 1969, International Journal of Orthodontics:

     The patient is shown how to hold one end of the string in his lips, and with a scroonching lip motion, to bring the marshmallow up to his mouth

   • 2010, David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology:

     The firelit face was low to the ground, tuening slowly from side to side; abruptly I realized that the turning head was sniffing the air on one side and then the other, scroonching its nose rather like an ape as it did so