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)

to crouch
- 1950, The Hopkins Review:
  He scroonched down flat on his belly and wiggled right under the fence
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