CRINGE, CRINGING
ADJECTIVES
1602 — OBSEQUIOUS cringing, fawning, sycophantic
1693 — CRINGELING cringing, servile → rare
1705 — BENECKING cringing, bowing the neck → obs. rare
1792 — MEACHING — MEECHING — MICHING cringing, skulking; self-deprecating, obsequious → Amer. dial.
1871 — INHOLDING cringing, fawning, given to flattery → Sc.
1880 — CRINGY cringing, servile; timid
1967 — CRINGY causing one to cringe with fear or acute embarrassment, awkwardness, disgust, etc.
1969 — CRINGE-MAKING causing one to cringe with fear or acute embarrassment, awkwardness, disgust, etc. → colloq.
1972 — CRINGE-INDUCING causing one to cringe with fear or acute embarrassment, awkwardness, disgust, etc. → colloq.
ADVERBS
1984 — CRINGE-MAKINGLY so intensely embarrassing, shameful, sentimental, etc., that one might cringe → colloq.
NOUNS
1590 — FAWN a servile cringe; a fawning; a wheedling courtesy → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
1635 — FAWN a person who cringes, fawns, or flatters; a toady → obs. rare
1798 — CRINGELING a cringing or servile person; a servile flatterer; a fawner
VERBS
1724 — BINGE to cringe; to bow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1746 — MEACH — MEECH to cringe; to look ashamed → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1790 — SCRINGE — SKRINGE to cringe; to flinch; to shrink, as from pain, cold, or fear; to flinch; to wince → Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
1825 — CRIMBLE to cringe, to shrink; to avoid being observed → Eng. dial.
1860 — SCHROOCH — SCROOCH — SCRUCH — SKROOTCH — SKRUTCH to cringe; to crouch, to draw oneself in; to shrink (back, down, etc.) → Amer. dial.
1891 — CRUDLE to cringe; to coax, to fawn; to shrink or cower with cold, fear, or pain → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1892 — SCROOGE to cringe; to crouch, to draw oneself in → Amer. dial.
1904 — SCRINCH to cringe; to draw the shoulders together → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BECK to cringe; to do obeisance → Sc (Bk.).
1911 — BEENGE to cringe, to fawn → Sc. (Bk.)
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