cranny

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
    — Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls
  2. A clerk writing English. India,obsolete
  3. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
  4. A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited. India,obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To break into, or become full of, crannies. intransitive
    — The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
  2. To haunt or enter by crannies. intransitive
    — All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

词形变化

crannies plural crannies present,singular,third-person crannying participle,present crannied participle,past crannied past crannies plural

词汇关系

相关词
any nook or cranny every nook and cranny nook and cranny nook or cranny

词源

词源 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 crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.
Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna 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”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Hindustani किरानी (kirānī) / کِرانِی (kirānī).
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