[Info-vax] openvms and xterm
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
ldo at nz.invalid
Tue Apr 23 17:50:05 EDT 2024
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:49:06 -0400, Hunter Goatley wrote:
> On 4/21/2024 6:45 PM, motk wrote:
>
>> It's just cringe.
>>
> So is using "cringe" as a noun.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cringe>:
Noun
cringe (countable and uncountable, plural cringes)
(countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
(countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
(countable, British, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
(uncountable, slang, derogatory) Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
Bro... you just posted cringe
There was so much cringe in that episode!
Also available as an adjective.
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