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Cringe crouch s.crunch shrug crotch squat

Cringe
1570s, "to bend or crouch, especially with servility or fear," variant of
crenge, crenche "to bend" (c. 1200), from causative of Old English cringan
"yield, give way, fall (in battle); become bent," from Proto-Germanic *krank-
"bend, curl up" (source 
also of Old Norse kringr, Dutch kring, German Kring "circle, ring"). Related:
Cringed; cringing. As a noun from 1590s

Crouch
"to stoop low, lie close to the ground," late 14c., probably from Old French
crochir "become bent, crooked," from croche "hook" (see crochet). Related:
Crouched; crouching. As a noun, "a crouching position," from 1590s

S.Crunch
1825, "to bite, crush with or as with the teeth," intensive form of crunch
(v.); ultimately imitative (see scr-). The colloquial meaning "to squeeze,
crush" is by 1835 (implied in scrunched). The intransitive sense of "contract
oneself into a more 
compact shape" is by 1884

initial sound-cluster, containing the exceptions to the general rule that sc-
or sk- in Modern English indicates a word not from Old English (whose sc-
regularly becomes sh-). Words often are found in pairs, especially in dialect
and slang, one in scr-, 
one in shr- (or schr-); a prominent surviving example is shred and screed, the
same Old English word surviving in two forms now much different in meaning.OED
also notes that "Many English words beginning with scr- agree more or less
closely in meaning 
with other words differing from them in form only by the absence of the
initial s" (such as crunch/scrunch, scringe, an alternative form of cringe,
etc.)It does not appear that these coincidences are due to any one general
cause ..., but it is probable 
that the existence of many pairs of synonyms with scr- and cr- produced a
tendency to change cr-, in words expressive of sounds or physical movements,
into scr- so as to render the word echoic or phonetically symbolic. [OED]

Shrug
late 14c., shruggen, "raise or draw up (the shoulders) with a sudden
movement," a word of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to Danish skrugge "to
stoop, crouch".

Crotch
1530s, "pitchfork," from Old North French croche "shepherd's crook," variant
of croc "hook," from Old Norse krokr "hook," which is of obscure origin but
perhaps related to the widespread group of Germanic kr- words meaning "bent,
hooked".

Squat
mid-14c., squatten, "to crush, flatten" (a sense now obsolete); early 15c.,
"crouch on the heels," from Old French esquatir, escatir "compress, press
down, lay flat, crush," from es- "out" (see ex-) + Old French quatir "press
down, flatten," from Vulgar 
Latin *coactire "press together, force," from Latin coactus, past participle
of cogere "to compel, curdle, collect" (see cogent).

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