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crevice

noun
/ˈkɹɛvɪs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

  1. derived from crepō
  2. derived from crevace
  3. inherited from crevice

Definitions

  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

    • [T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
    • 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.

  2. 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.

  3. To crack

    To crack; to flaw.

    • they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crevice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA