crunchy

CEFRB1

/ˈkɹʌnt͡ʃi/

adjective

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adjective
Making a crisp noise when bitten or broken.
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adjective
Extra detail
Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Of a chord, containing dissonant intervals.
Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.
Of an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.

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Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out? Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?
1969 November 23, “Crunchy Frog”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 6
Weiner says being in Oakland “allows you to encounter different ideas” in terms of style “like crunchy, old people in the organic produce section of the grocery store, wearing very Bay Area specific outfits”.
2022 November 10, Lauren Cochrane, quoting Jonah Weiner, “‘Cool kids want to dress like old crunchy people’: the fashion newsletter where wholesome is hip”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
This can result in the image looking very crunchy as pixels are skipped - especially if you choose the "Fit" option in the Magnification popup. Don't panic; your final image won't look that bad[…]
2007, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, After Effects Apprentice: Real-world Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
[…] pixels that look hideous on screen to a printing device. But if the pixels don't look seriously crunchy on the display, you're almost certainly undersharpening your images. The only reliable way to evaluate print sharpening is to[…]
2009 September 25, Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, Peachpit Press, →ISBN
Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it.
2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, →ISBN, page 147

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From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola.