different between cranny vs notch

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)

1. 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.
2. 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)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.

Etymology 2

Perhaps for cranky.

Adjective

cranny (comparative more cranny, superlative most cranny)

1. (Britain, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an + otch, which noun stems from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

notch (plural notches)

1. A V-shaped cut.
   1. Such a cut, used for keeping a record.

   2. (slang) Woman.
2. An indentation.
3. A mountain pass; a defile.
4. (finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
5. (informal) A level or degree.
   • 2014, Daniel Taylor, "World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk, 20 June:

     a better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.

6. (electronics) A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

notch (third-person singular simple present notches, present participle notching, simple past and past participle notched)

1. (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
2. (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.

3. (transitive) To join by means of notches.
4. (transitive, informal) To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes.

   Synonym: notch up
5. (transitive) To fit (an arrow) to a bow by means of the notch cut at the end of the arrow; to nock.
   • 1885, John Niles Hubbard, An Account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, Or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830, page 31:

     Notching an arrow on the string of his tried and unerring bow, he raised his sinewy arms […]

   • 1913, Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), Our Paper, page 530:

     As Uncle Bunse threw his armful of stuff into the canoe, half a dozen other Indians crept forward, notching their arrows to shoot.

Derived terms

• notcher

Translations

References

• Partridge, Eric (2006): Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

Cebuano

Etymology

From nota + ch.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: notch

Noun

notch

1. the penis