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Kanny vs Ranny - What's the difference?

kanny | ranny |

As an adjective kanny

is an alternative spelling of canny.

As a noun ranny is

a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).

kanny

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Geordie)

    • ranny

    English

    Noun

    (rannies)
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
    • instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus'' and ''Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny , blind [...].

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