cringeworthy

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪn(d)ʒˌwɜːði/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈkhɹwɪnd͡ʒˌwɜːðɪi̯]
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• General-American: /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒˌwɜɹði/
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• General-American: [ˈkhɹwɪnd͡ʒˌwɜɹðɪi̯]
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From cringe (verb) + -worthy (suffix meaning of ‘sufficient worth for, deserving of’), popularized by the surname of the character Cuthbert Cringeworthy, an extremely studious pupil introduced in 1972 into The Bash Street Kids, a comic strip by the Scottish cartoonist David Sutherland (1933–2023) published in the British magazine The Beano.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: քինջ (kʻinǰ) — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Azerbaijani: əttökən — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Bulgarian: криндж (krindž) — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Chinese Mandarin: 令人尷尬的 /令人尴尬的 (lìngrén gāngà de) — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Czech: hrozně nepříjemný — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Danish: tåkrummende — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Dutch: tenenkrommend — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Dutch: tenenkrullend — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Esperanto: hontiga — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Esperanto: hontinda — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Finnish: kiusaannuttava — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Finnish: myötähäpeää aiheuttava — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Finnish: nolo — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• French: embarrassant — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• French: malaisant — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: blamabel — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: beschämend — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: erschütternd — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: peinlich — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: unangenehm — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: zum Fremdschämen — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• German: zum In-den-Boden-Versinken — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Hungarian: ciki — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Hungarian: kínos — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Icelandic: kjánahrollur — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Icelandic: pínlegur — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Italian: imbarazzante — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Japanese: 痛い (itai) — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Korean: 오글오글 (ogeurogeul) — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: cringe — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: pinlig — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Polish: cringe'owy — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Polish: zawstydzający — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Polish: żenujący — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Russian: стрёмный (strjómnyj) — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Spanish: dar alipori — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Spanish: dar grima — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Spanish: de alipori — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Spanish: de grima — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Spanish: para morir de vergüenza — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.
• Spanish: para morirse de vergüenza — that causes or may cause one to cringe with disgust, embarrassment, etc.