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Hippie vs Crunchie - What's the difference?

hippie | crunchie |

As nouns the difference between hippie and crunchie

is that hippie is hippie, hippy while crunchie is (south africa|slang|derogatory|offensive|ethnic slur) a white afrikaner.

hippie

English

(wikipedia hippie)

Alternative forms

* hippy

Noun

(en noun)
  • A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
  • One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
  • (modern ) A person, especially a male, with unusually long hair and often wearing ragged clothes.
  • Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  • One who is hip.

    • Synonyms

    * (teenager who imitated the beatniks) beatnik * treehugger

    Derived terms

    * hippiedom

    Related terms

    * hip * hipster

    See also

    * feral

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
  • (colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.

    • Synonyms

    * beatnik

    Related terms

    * hep * hip ----

    crunchie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.
  • * 1990 , Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams (page 54)
    • the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies , hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.