cringeometer
Syllables: cringe·o·met·erUK/kɹɪnˈd͡ʒɒmɪtə//kɹɪnˈd͡ʒɑmɪtɚ/
cringeometer noun: an imaginary device that measures cringeworthiness (the extent to which something makes one cringe; that is, flinch or recoil with embarrassment).
Noun
cringeometer (plural cringeometers)
- An imaginary device that measures cringeworthiness (the extent to which something makes one cringe; that is, flinch or recoil with embarrassment).
- My cringeometer went off the scale as I watched his excruciating performance.
- How Does Your Dad Rate On The Cringe-O-Meter? [title]2011 June 11, “How does Your Dad Rate on the Cringe-O-Meter?”, in NPR, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2016
Examples of cringeometer in a sentence
- But he [Gordon Brown] caused serious damage to the cringeometer in the build-up to the 2010 general election when he attacked the Conservative Party with a football chant: [...]2014, Dan Walker, “Football and Politics”, in Dan Walker’s Football Thronkersaurus: Football’s Finest Tales, London: Simon & Schuster UK...
- Cringeometers off for a minute, the sleight is fascinating.2014 February 15, Mark Anthony Falzon, “A village in tiny Malta”, in Times of Malta, Valletta, Malta: Allied Malta Newspapers, →OCLC:
- Again, with your cringeometer on, it's lucky, there's loads of brilliant actors, to work a lot is fantastic.2015 April 29, Naomi Gordon, quoting Toby Jones, “Toby Jones on Wayward Pines: ‘The Twist was so Astonishing to Me’”, in Digital Spy:
- The rest of us, though, might need to start recalibrating our cringeometers.2017 July 7, Jack Lang, “Bizarre transfer unveilings have become the Premier League’s latest arms race – so where will it end?”, in The...
Forms of cringeometer
| plural | cringeometers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cringe-o-meter |
| alternative form | cringometer |
Origin of cringeometer
From cringe + -ometer (suffix forming the names of measuring devices), possibly modelled after odometer, speedometer, etc.
Words that rhyme with cringeometer
Questions about cringeometer
- What does cringeometer mean?
- Cringeometer means an imaginary device that measures cringeworthiness (the extent to which something makes one cringe; that is, flinch or recoil with embarrassment).
- How do you use cringeometer in a sentence?
- But he [Gordon Brown] caused serious damage to the cringeometer in the build-up to the 2010 general election when he attacked the Conservative Party with a football chant: [...]
- What part of speech is cringeometer?
- Cringeometer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cringeometer?
- Cringeometer is pronounced /kɹɪnˈd͡ʒɒmɪtə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cringeometer?
- The plural of cringeometer is cringeometers.
Words near cringeometer in the dictionary
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