crevice en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɹɛvɪs/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Meanings
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A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 13:
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(slang) The vagina.
[…] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice.
2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| crevices | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
crevice skink · creviceless · Korean crevice salamander
Translations (54)
de Felsritze (narrow crack) · tl biyak (narrow crack) · it fenditura (narrow crack) · de Mauerritze (narrow crack) · ka ნაპრალი (narrow crack) · es resquebrajadura (narrow crack) · pl szczelina (narrow crack) · it crepa (narrow crack) · he בקיע (narrow crack) · pl rysa (narrow crack) · ru тре́щина (narrow crack) · sk škára (narrow crack) · nl spleet (narrow crack) · he סדק (narrow crack) · la rīma (narrow crack) · fi halkeama (narrow crack) · sh pukotina (narrow crack) · pt fresta (narrow crack) · mk про́цеп (narrow crack) · tr yarık (narrow crack) · hu repedés (narrow crack) · sk štrbina (narrow crack) · es hendedura (narrow crack) · eo fendaĵo (narrow crack) · tr çatlak (narrow crack) · pt fenda (narrow crack) · es hendidura (narrow crack) · de Spalte (narrow crack) · de Mauerspalt (narrow crack) · zh 缝隙 (narrow crack) · ro spărtură (narrow crack) · ro fisură (narrow crack) · ru расще́лина (narrow crack) · bg цепнатина (narrow crack) · ja 亀裂 (narrow crack) · la crepātūra (narrow crack) · ota آرالق (narrow crack) · sv spricka (narrow crack) · mk пукна́тина (narrow crack) · fr anfractuosité (narrow crack) · de Spalt (narrow crack) · fr fissure f fente (narrow crack) · ota چاك (narrow crack) · it fessura (narrow crack) · de Felsspalt (narrow crack) · tr gedik (narrow crack) · sv skreva (narrow crack) · sv klyfta (narrow crack) · pl szpara (narrow crack) · hu hasadék (narrow crack) · fa شکاف (narrow crack) · fa رخنه (narrow crack) · ga scáineadh (narrow crack) · bg пукнатина (narrow crack)