Cringe

"Cringe" in is

fá kjánahroll

(to cower, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear)

fá kjánahroll

(to experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear)

hrylla við

(to cower, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.