a. rare. [f. CRINGE + -Y.] Having the attribute of cringing.
1860. Franklin Repository & Transcript, 4 Jan., 4/1. These hotspurs … imagine that every Northern man is as mean, despicable and cringy as are the dough-face Locofoco members of Congress.
1880. [Emily Gerard], in Blackw. Mag., March, 321/1. He talks … in an oily, cringy voice in which there is a strong dash of insolence.
