Scrunches vs Scrunchis - What's the difference?

As a verb scrunches

is third-person singular of scrunch.

plural of scrunchi.

(head)

(scrunch)

To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.

He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.

* 1793–1799 , Robert Townson, Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology , page 154:

and the scrunching of ashes under our feet I have often observed to be disagreeable to many.

* 1800 , Walter Besant, James Rice, With Harp and Crown , page 828:

Then I put them under my heel, and scrunched them up, every one.

(scrunches)

A crunching noise.

(head)