2 That person who tries to act funny or "cool", but he turns out to be cringey and tacky instead. What do you call that person? Example: Look at Todd, interfering in our conversations, telling us jokes about chickens crossing the road and failing to make us laugh. I cringe when he does this. He is just so [insert word]. The verb to ‘ cringe ’ expresses crouching down often hunching up as if to avoid a physical attach. So literal-minded people like me (if any exist) would cringe at you example, because ‘peak cringe ’ is too much of an oxymoron. It comes of not thinking about what words mean. A ideia, aplicando a esta pergunta, é que tu deves explicar claramente o significado de cringe ou cringeworthy, para então nós tentarmos encontrar uma palavra ou expressão portuguesa que corresponda a isso. Incluir frases exemplo ajuda, até porque como está, cringe é verbo, cringeworthy é substantivo, fica pouco claro o que tu queres. Both are simply ad-hoc adjectivizations of " cringe ". Apparently "cringey" is listed as a "new word suggestion" by Collins, but neither is officially in a standard English dictionary yet.
