scrunchi

English

Noun

scrunchi (plural scrunchis)

1. Alternative form of scrunchie
   • 2003, Dori Hillestad Butler, Sliding into Home, page 172:

     Brooke pulled the purple scrunchi off her ponytail and ran her fingers through her hair.

   • 2007, Jeffery Deaver, The Sleeping Doll, page 282:

     The girl tossed the book on the planks of the swing and rocked back and forth, as she pulled the scrunchi out of her hair and rebound her ponytail.

   • 2011, Leslie Wheeler, Murder at Plimoth Plantation:

     Prepared as I was for the worst, the utter ordinariness of the scene took me by surprise: covers turned back on the bed, an indentation in the pillow where Caroline's head had been, her lavender scrunchi on the nightstand.