scroonch

S1C3R1O1O1N1C3H4
/skɹʊnt͡ʃ//skɹuːnt͡ʃ/

verb

to crouch

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Meanings

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

present singular third person scroonches · participle present scroonching · participle past scroonched · past scroonched

  1. to crouch

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

    1950, The Hopkins Review
  2. to scrunch

    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

    1969, International Journal of Orthodontics
    1 more example

    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

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

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MLA

“scroonch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scroonch. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scroonch,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scroonch.

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