Ranny vs Manny - What's the difference?
ranny | manny |
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
(informal) A male nanny (for children).
*2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. —
As a noun ranny
is (obsolete|outside|dialects) a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).As a proper noun manny is
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(rannies)- 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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* ----manny
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(mannies)CBS News, 9 June 2006
