求cringeworhy的解释cringeworhy是一个俚语,大概意思应该是恶心,难堪吧.哪位知道它确切的的意思或用法?千万不要回答是“值得卑躬,值得退缩”的意思!

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求cringeworhy的解释
cringeworhy是一个俚语,大概意思应该是恶心,难堪吧.哪位知道它确切的的意思或用法?
千万不要回答是“值得卑躬,值得退缩”的意思!

Answer 1

看看这个专解吧,专门讲的这个词.
A.Word.A.Day--cringeworthy
This week's theme:eponyms.
Cringeworthy (KRINJ-wur-thee) adjective
Causing extreme embarrassment.
[From Old English cringan (to yield or shrink).So someone cringeworthy makes you feeling crinkled,etymologically speaking.]
The term was popularized by Cuthbert Cringeworthy,a character in the British comic strip The Bash Street Kids.Cuthbert is the brightest kid in the class,a bespectacled,hard-working Brit (I thought that was Harry Potter).
Wait,Cuthbert is also bossy and rude.He is a teacher's pet and looks exactly like him.No one wants to be seen with him.Clearly,Cringeworthy is a charactonym,a name that suggests personality traits of a character.
-Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org)
"Not that there was much cringeworthy in the Tiger Bay forum; everyone behaved nicely and stayed on message incessantly." David Warner; Matters of Primary Importance and Signs of Change; Weekly Planet (Tampa,Florida); Aug 25,2004.