crouchy

crouchy

See also: Crouchy

English

Etymology

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.