Scrunch vs Grimace - What's the difference?
scrunch | grimace |
To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
* 1793–1799 , Robert Townson, Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology , page 154:
* 1800 , Walter Besant, James Rice, With Harp and Crown , page 828:
A crunching noise.
A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
* "I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace , and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about." — Opera News , March 2005
To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
As verbs the difference between scrunch and grimace
is that scrunch is to crumple and squeeze to make more compact while grimace is .As a noun scrunch
is a crunching noise.scrunch
English
Verb
- He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
- and the scrunching of ashes under our feet I have often observed to be disagreeable to many.
- Then I put them under my heel, and scrunched them up, every one.
