The act of intentionally doing something awkward, embarrassing, or shameful in order to provoke a reaction of 'cringe' from onlookers.
"Haha, I'm only wearing this Fortnite T-Shirt to cringe-bait these normies"
"Look at that guy Naruto running through the store. He is probably cringe-baiting us"
"Look at that guy Naruto running through the store. He is probably cringe-baiting us"
by epic_style November 18, 2020
Get the Cringe-Baitingmug. The daddy of all cringe related material in the world, they adore to use : xD rawr:
And the word : cringey! : In each sentance. They adore to steal memes that often have watermarks on them.
And the word : cringey! : In each sentance. They adore to steal memes that often have watermarks on them.
by S-Senpai January 18, 2017
Get the cringe daddymug. The automatic biological response to cringe away from any sort of human contact. Prominently found in the introvert strand of the homo sapien species.
by IDCC May 7, 2017
Get the contact cringemug. by neilcicstan July 17, 2021
Get the cringe lolmug. A session, moment, or any interval of time of time (usually before you sleep) in which you recall embarrassing and cringe-worthy memories from your past that usually make you say "Ugh, why the fuck did I do that?"
Was trying to sleep last night but ended up going through an hour long cringe session. Was fucking brutal.
by stupiddude333 October 27, 2015
Get the Cringe Sessionmug. The Cringe Counter is a chart directed to GZ/GA (newest generation) where there are 7 categories, listed below:
1: Perfectly Normal, no Twitter
2: Harmless, just harmless jokes
3: Approaching, uses Twitter and has behavior of stan
4: Slightly Cringe, uses Twitter a lot and has behavior of stan
5: Cringe, is just very cringe
6: Alpha Cringe, Zoophile/P*dophile supporter
7: Beta Cringe R*pesexual supporter
(for those who are wondering, GEN A is the newest generation)
1: Perfectly Normal, no Twitter
2: Harmless, just harmless jokes
3: Approaching, uses Twitter and has behavior of stan
4: Slightly Cringe, uses Twitter a lot and has behavior of stan
5: Cringe, is just very cringe
6: Alpha Cringe, Zoophile/P*dophile supporter
7: Beta Cringe R*pesexual supporter
(for those who are wondering, GEN A is the newest generation)
by "D*cktionary" January 6, 2022
Get the Cringe Countermug. When someone acts in a cringy manner, knowingly, in order to instigate laughter among a group of people who understand the deliberate cringiness.
The way Teddy texts is pseudo-cringy, as all his friends know that he's intentionally writing that way.
The teacher acts in a pseudo-cringy manner which makes the Z-GEN kids laugh. ( Pseudo-cringe-ception: pseudo cringe within pseudo-cringe example. )
The teacher acts in a pseudo-cringy manner which makes the Z-GEN kids laugh. ( Pseudo-cringe-ception: pseudo cringe within pseudo-cringe example. )
by PseudoCringer February 27, 2020
Get the pseudo-cringemug.