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rannies

rannies is the plural of ranny.

Meaning of ranny

Noun

ranny (plural rannies)

  1. (East-Anglia, dialectal, obsolete) A shrew (the animal).
    • 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 […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, section XVIII

Proper noun capitalized: Rannies

Rannies

  1. (plural) plural of Rannie

Questions about rannies

What is rannies the plural of?
Rannies is the plural of ranny.
What part of speech is rannies?
Rannies is a proper noun.

Words near rannies in the dictionary

  1. rannest
  2. Ranney
  3. Ranneys
  4. Rannia Zoria
  5. Rannie
  6. rannies
  7. rannigal
  8. rannigals
  9. Rannoch
  10. Rannoch Moor
  11. Rannock

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