Ranny vs Rangy - What's the difference?
ranny | rangy |
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
Slender and long of limb; lanky
:For an accountant, Robert had a rangy appearance.
:Her African violets weren't getting enough sun and became rangy .
Prone to roaming around with animal-like movements.
Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.
As a noun ranny
is (obsolete|outside|dialects) a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).As an adjective rangy is
slender and long of limb; lanky.ranny
English
Noun
(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 [...].