Crossword clues for crunchy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1892, from crunch + -y (2). Student slang sense of "annoyingly intense about health or environmental issues" is by 1990, short for crunchy granola (considered as natural and wholesome); not entirely pejorative at first. Related: Crunchiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten 2 (context slang English) having sensibilities of a counter-culture nature lover or hippie; derived from the concept of crunchy granola.
WordNet
Usage examples of "crunchy".
The sliced vegetables were cooked to perfection, still crisp and crunchy, and I pushed them around in the little white cardboard box with my chopsticks, looking for more chicken.
Martian named Crunchy, the physicist George Gamow, James Dean and me in the dripping dark jungle in front of a brontosaurus I had shot.
Now, her stomach felt hollow and tight, and her mouth watered at the mere thought of crunchy kaffa roots.
Then he had somehow transformed those plebian chicken breasts into a gourmet feast with crisp, colorful stir-fried vegetables aromatic with sesame oil and crunchy with peanuts, and served with fluffy-steamed rice.
However, spinies have no natural enemies, so they merely gazed at the figure with languidly disapproving eyes and returned to their crunchy but nourishing fare.
When my chart gave me permission, I chose what most pleased my tastes, which lean toward the spicy, crunchy, sweet, and mellow.
Harriman, and, secondly, he was quite capable of planning a campaign to convince the public that Lady Godiva wore a Caresse-brand girdle during her famous ride or that Hercules attributed his strength to Crunchies for breakfast.
The anchovies were soft and salty, the olives firm and dry, and the pinenuts crunchy.
Squeezed into dinner jackets, with celluloid cunts in tow: crispy, crunchy, cute.
Only when she had served the others did Aramina eat, savoring the klah and the thick, crunchy bread spread with the berry jam.
He sat down and ordered the blintzes, a pot of Spiderleg tea, and a dish of Canine Crunchies No.
I munched thoughtfully on a buttery, crunchy cookie, whose texture was perfectly balanced with the sweet chewiness of the currants.
A dozen humans, all Americans, have made those odd bounding motions they called "moonwalks" on the crunchy, cratered, ancient gray lava—beginning on that July day in 1969.
The croquettes were crisp and crunchy on the outside, tasty with a homemade roux-binder and hot melted cheese on the inside.
This, too, was tart,although crunchier and with a more pleasing texture.