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A cranny is a tiny, narrow opening — a crack in a wall, a split in rock, a gap you could only slide a finger into. Used alone it sounds a little old or story-book. In real life you almost always hear it in the set phrase every nook and cranny, meaning every small hiding place, the whole of a space searched or cleaned. A nook is a little corner; a cranny is a little crack; together they mean 'absolutely everywhere.' Nook is just its partner in that phrase, not a relative of the word.
縫隙、小裂縫。every nook and cranny＝每個角落、角角落落。
組成From Middle English crany, apparently a small form of an older cran, from Old French cran, cren ('notch, fissure'). The deeper root is unclear — probably Germanic or Celtic. A link to Latin crena is doubtful.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crannynoun詞源 1/ˈkɹæni/
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A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
- Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls
- [H]e peep'd into every Cranny; ſometimes he admir'd the Beauty of the Architecture, and the vaſt Solidity of the Maſon's VVork; at other Times he commended the Symmetry and Proportion of the Rooms.
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A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
crannyverb詞源 1/ˈkɹæni/
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To break into, or become full of, crannies.
- The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
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To haunt or enter by crannies.
- All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
crannynoun詞源 2/ˈkɹæni/
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obsoleteA clerk writing English.
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obsoleteA member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。