Ranny vs Wranny - What's the difference?
ranny | wranny |
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
As nouns the difference between ranny and wranny
is that ranny is a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal) while wranny is the common wren.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 [...].
