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cringefest

noun
/ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒˌfɛst/

Etymology

From cringe + -fest.

  1. derived from *grenǵʰ-✻ — “to turn”
  2. derived from *kringaną✻
  3. inherited from *krangijaną✻ — “to cause to fall; to cause to turn”
  4. inherited from *crenċan✻
  5. inherited from crengen — “to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”
  6. suffixed as cringefest — “cringe + fest”

Definitions

  1. A work or a situation that induces cringing

    A work or a situation that induces cringing; something very embarrassing.

    • What makes “Dr. Ken” such a cringefest is the disconnect between Mr. Jeong’s florid persona — pitched at the edge of desperation — and everything else on screen, which stays within the boundaries of a network family series.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cringefest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA