scrunch up

Questions about scrunch up

What does scrunch up mean?

scrunch up means "sit on one's heels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for scrunch up?

Close synonyms include squat, crouch, scrunch, hunker, hunker down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scrunch up a common word?

scrunch up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.