To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
To bow or crouch in servility.
To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
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.
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
To waste away; to fade, to wither.
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.