How do you pronounce crevice?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɛvɪs/.

Where does crevice come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

crevice

/ˈkɹɛvɪs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.62 in modern English

Syllables: crevice
IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/

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Meaning

noun

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

noun

The vagina.

Slang

verb

To crack; to flaw.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: crevice, crevace, crepō

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/

Usage

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Inflected Forms

crevices (plural) crevices (present, singular) crevicing (participle, present) creviced (participle, past) creviced (past)

Derived Forms

creviceless

Phrases

crevice skink Korean crevice salamander

Synonyms

crack cleft fissure scissure cranny chap