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ranny
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See also: Ranny
English
Etymology
From Latin mūsarāneus (“shrew, fieldmouse”).
Noun
ranny (plural rannies)
- (obsolete outside dialects, East Anglia) A shrew (the animal).
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, section 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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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
ranny (comparative bardziej ranny, superlative najbardziej ranny, no derived adverb)
Declension
Declension of ranny (hard)
Etymology 2
Adjective
ranny (not comparable, derived adverb rannie)
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