Scrunkly

//ˈskɹʌŋkli// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A scrunkly person, animal, or thing. Internet, especially, slang

    "Immediate reactions to Animal Crossing: New Horizons’; Crumploid were naturally varied. Some expressed worry about the robot's well-being, while others were upset to see him at the end of their shovels at all. One player even described their Crumploid as "the one true skrunkly," a nonsensical phrase that Urban Dictionary tells me means they love him."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Cute in a quirky, scruffy, or dishevelled way. Internet

    "he is so scrunkly; i love him"

Synonyms

All synonyms
scrunglyscrungly

Example

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"LOL It's ok, even gurus have to sleep once in a while!! Stops the skin going scrunkly, not to be confused with crunkly :-p xx"

Etymology

Popularized by images shared across social media in late 2020 and early 2021, captioned: "awww the scrunkly 🥰🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 double tap now if you'd scrunkly the when😆". Perhaps a blend of scrunched + crinkly.

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