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cranny
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?æni/
- Rhymes: -æni
Etymology 1
From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin cren? (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crin? (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.
Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin cr?na is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).
Noun
cranny (plural crannies)
- A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
- c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- He peeped into every cranny.
- c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Related terms
- any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny
Translations
Verb
cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)
- (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
- The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
- (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
Etymology 2
Perhaps for cranky.
Adjective
cranny (comparative more cranny, superlative most cranny)
- (Britain, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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adj
English
Noun
adj (plural adjs)
- Alternative spelling of adj.
Anagrams
- JAD, Jad
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- adjál
Etymology
ad +? -j
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [????]
- Hyphenation: adj
- Rhymes: -???
Verb
adj
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of ad
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