A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
To bow or crouch in servility.
To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
A servile cringe or bow.
A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
Base flattery.
A young deer.
Of the fawn colour.
To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
To give birth to a fawn.