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cryfests

cryfests is the plural of cryfest.

Meaning of cryfest

Noun

cryfest (plural cryfests)

  1. (informal) Something sad or moving, especially a film.
    • The Sin of Madelon Claudet was another hugely successful exemplar of the crime-and-punishment cryfests that shopgirls and housewives took to heart.1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 130
    Synonyms:
    sobfest, tearjerker
  2. (informal) An episode of intense crying.
    • Knowing that I had but seconds left before my kid exploded into a full-blown cryfest and knowing that I absolutely had to have an article of clothing that could camouflage baby barf, I raced to the register with my sapling tucked under my arm.1997, Anne Voelckers Palumbo, The Stay-At-Home Mom's Survival Guide, White-Boucke Publishing, →ISBN, page 7
    Synonyms:
    sobfest

Questions about cryfests

What is cryfests the plural of?
Cryfests is the plural of cryfest.

Words near cryfests in the dictionary

  1. cryest
  2. cryesthesia
  3. cryeth
  4. cryey
  5. cryfest
  6. cryfests
  7. cryful
  8. cryic
  9. cryier
  10. cryiest
  11. cryin'

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