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nook and cranny en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, with "any" or "every") A place or part of a place, especially one that is small, remote, or tedious to access.
    • Everyone helped out to clean every nook and cranny of the house.
    • Det er underligt at komme hjemme fra sin egen Krinkelkrog, gaae med Skib, der ogsaa er en Slags Krinkelkrog, og saa pludselig være over hundrede Mile borte og staae i et fremmedt Land. 1966 [1858], Hans Christian Andersen, “Soup from a Sausage Peg”, in Pat Shaw Iversen, transl., The Snow Queen and Other Tales (Signet Classic; CT334), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, translation of Suppe paa en Pølsepind (in Danish), →OCLC, page 224:
    • Ever since the post-war spread of the motor car, the railways have had to contend with tough competition, but have had an inherent advantage in the commuter and inter-city markets. Now they are about to face two new enemies - a technology that everyone has learnt to use and a virus that many people think lurks in every nook and cranny of the rail system. 2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:
    • Cleaning this equipment really isn't hard except that getting into all the nooks and crannies is time-consuming.
    • One two, one two, one two, titty! I know every nook and cranny in New York City, We're Ciccone, and that's enough, I'm the Royal Tuff Titty, and you gotta taste my love, Taste my love! 1987, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, “Master-Dik”, in Master-Dik, performed by Sonic Youth, SST:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
nooks and crannies Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

every nook and cranny · every old nook and cranny

Synonyms

nook or cranny

Translations (18)

it anfratto (small or remote place) · hu rejtett zug (small or remote place) · de Winkel (small or remote place) · hu zug (small or remote place) · da krinkelkrog (small or remote place) · ga gach cearn is clúid (small or remote place) · pl zakamarek (small or remote place) · fi kolkka (small or remote place) · nb krik og krok (small or remote place) · fa سوراخ سنبه (small or remote place) · sv skrymsle (small or remote place) · sv skrymslen och vrår (small or remote place) · hu távoli sarok (small or remote place) · hu sarok (small or remote place) · fr tous les coins et les recoins (small or remote place) · sv vrå (small or remote place) · de jede Ecke und jeder Winkel (small or remote place) · ja 隅々まで (small or remote place)