Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small opening, as in a wall or rock face; a crevice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any small narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, a rock, a tree, etc.
- To become intersected with or penetrated by crannies, clefts, or crevices.
- To enter by crannies; haunt crannies.
- Pleasant; brisk; jovial.
- n. A tool for forming the necks of glass bottles.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
- n. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
- n. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
- v. To crack into, or become full of, crannies.
- v. To haunt, or enter by, crannies.
- adj. Quick; giddy; thoughtless.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a long narrow depression in a surface
- n. a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)
Etymologies
- Middle English crani, perhaps alteration of Old French cren, cran, notch, from *crener, to notch.
Examples
“Playtime … The game without searching EVERY shelf, nook, and cranny is 20-25 hours.”
“Anyone familiar with the Linux world will find a utility to fill any nook and cranny which is another way of saying that the user won't be short of add-on software, to match the supposed depth and diversity of the Windows world.”
“As Congress scrutinizes every nook and cranny of the budget for possible revenue, a surprising court decision is allowing clergy members to buy or live in multiple homes tax-free.”
“White Horse Bookshop 136 High Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1HN, 01672 512071Books are crammed into every nook and cranny of this charming little shop.”
“XOYO, EC2, ThuSam RichardsBugged Out's refreshingly widescreen approach to music has embraced club nights and festivals since the dawn of time well, 1994 but this latest weekender gives free rein to BO's quest to leave no musical cranny unexplored.”
“And then re-introduced to it on the half shell, glazed with a thermidor sauce, decorated with crisp, salty sprigs of samphire, all of which makes you want to lick the shell clean, to dig your tongue into every nook and cranny.”
The Guardian: Best UK Restaurant 2010: The Kitchin, Edinburgh
“Art seeps into and out of every nook and cranny in human culture, it's how we imagine the world that is due us, and poetry, in particular, is its own language: Metaphor is how our brains process language and experience, more than any other mechanism (the other two primary tools being music and mathematics).”
“In the weeks which followed, several domiciliary visits were paid, not a shack or tent in Nome escaping, but Fortune lay in his cranny undisturbed.”
“We now occupy every continent and are exploring every nook and cranny of the Earth for new resources.”
The Huffington Post: David Suzuki: Humans May Have Loaded the Bases, but Nature Bats Last
“But some of these compounds are slow-acting -- and all require repeated treatments and a coordinated, no-holds-barred attack to rid every nook and cranny of the infested household of the vampiric pests.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: Is Propoxur the Way to Not Let the Bedbugs Bite?
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bilby Nook and cranny, now there's a spoonerism waiting to happen.
Nov 24, 2007
sonofgroucho Often associated with one or more nooks. Nov 24, 2007