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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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