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Meaning of ranny | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A shrew (the animal).

East-Anglia, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

ranny-gazoo rannygazoo ranoid ranolazine Ranong Ranoo