Scrunchie vs Crunchie - What's the difference?
scrunchie | crunchie |
A small elasticated ring of fabric placed around long hair to hold it in place behind the head.
(South Africa, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.
* 1990 , Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams (page 54)
As nouns the difference between scrunchie and crunchie
is that scrunchie is a small elasticated ring of fabric placed around long hair to hold it in place behind the head while crunchie is a white Afrikaner.scrunchie
English
(wikipedia scrunchie)Alternative forms
* scrunchyNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* gogocrunchie
English
Noun
(en noun)- the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies , hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.