Cranny vs Slit - What's the difference?
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A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
* Arbuthnot
* Dryden
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
To break into, or become full of, crannies.
* Golding
To haunt or enter by crannies.
* Byron
A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
(vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
To cut a narrow opening.
To split in two parts.
To cut; to sever; to divide.
* Milton:
Slit is a synonym of cranny.
As nouns the difference between cranny and slit
is that cranny is a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance while slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot.As verbs the difference between cranny and slit
is that cranny is to break into, or become full of, crannies while slit is to cut a narrow opening.As an adjective cranny
is quick; giddy; thoughtless.cranny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crany, .Noun
(crannies)- He peeped into every cranny .
- In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies .
Verb
- The ground did cranny everywhere.
- All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
Etymology 2
Perhaps for cranky.slit
English
(wikipedia slit)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
Verb
- He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
- And slits the thin-spun life.