by Lucasj17 November 10, 2019

Cringe is a word, implemented by millennials to replace a three word phrase "second hand embarrassment".
*Person A presenting a PowerPoint presentation about China infront of his history class*
Person A: ... Oh and if anyone is wondering on July 4th 1989 nothing happened on Tiananmen Square. Now about the...
Person B quietly to itself: Cringe.
Person A: ... Oh and if anyone is wondering on July 4th 1989 nothing happened on Tiananmen Square. Now about the...
Person B quietly to itself: Cringe.
by low@ September 13, 2020

A perfectly precise verb that has now been mutilated into an adjective to well describe something morally intolerable, just because that thing is too much to handle.
by Medium Salsa December 11, 2016

by Jeffreyman November 17, 2017

"That one Furry boy is so cringe, I'd like to drown him in his own blood."
"Wow, youtube is so cringe, I think I'm going to fall off from a bridge."
"Wow, youtube is so cringe, I think I'm going to fall off from a bridge."
by Raviolo_down November 16, 2018
