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Ranty vs Ranny - What's the difference?

ranty | ranny |

As an adjective ranty

is ranting; not flowing.

As a noun ranny is

(obsolete|outside|dialects) a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).

ranty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • ranting; not flowing.
  • A ranty manifesto.

    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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