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Definition of Scrunchy
1. an elastic band for fastening the hair [n SCRUNCHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrunchy
Literary usage of Scrunchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
""Of course you may have scrunchy toast if you like, Alice dear. Why isn't Alice
to have scrunchy toast, Ellen?" "Because little girls ought to be consistent ..."
2. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
""Of course you may have scrunchy toast if you like, Alice dear. Why isn't Alice
to have scrunchy ..."
3. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes (1863)
"... as white's a sheet, Did scrunchy sharp below our veet, An' water, that did
sparkle red At ..."
4. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes (1863)
"... as white's a sheet, Did scrunchy sharp below our veet, An' water, that did
sparkle red At ..."
5. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson (2005)
"Sent , interrupter, Her hair, brown and flowing, was held back with a scrunchy.
Mr. Talk, our English teacher, says we're intelligent. ..."
6. The Quiver: An Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading (1892)
"Then there was something very soft and " scrunchy-looking,'' as Dorothy mentally
observed to herself, and that proved to Ь- а frill and a bow for Sarah from ..."
7. Hwomely Rhymes: A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes (1859)
"... as white's a sheet, Did scrunchy sharp below our veet, An' water, that did
sparkle red At ..."
8. Modern Business Writing by Charles Harvey Raymond (1921)
"Note that the purely persuasive element of the following Short Circuit appeal is
not introduced until within the last paragraphs: Crisp, scrunchy trout ..."
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