Noun: crevice
| Singular | crevice |
| Plural | crevices |
Sample Sentences
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[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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16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
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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.
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A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks. [1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:]
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[…] 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:]
Nouns inflected like crevice
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse. See: Middle English Nouns '
crevice', Latin Nouns '
crepō'.
Verbs referencing "crevice"
Spanish Nouns
quiebra.