A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
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 girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
A stretch of fishing-lines shot in the water.
A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of an animal.
A leather tie; a short wagon rope.
Possessing or indicating lack; deficient.