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cranny

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæni/

The English word “cranny” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
  3. A clerk writing English.
  4. A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

verb

  1. To break into, or become full of, crannies.
  2. To haunt or enter by crannies.

Etymology

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 crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin; according to Watkins, of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *krīnos (“decayed, withered”). Despite a spurious…

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