Nook or Cranny ??

Question

Please please help... what on earth is the difference between a nook or a cranny??

Answer 1

A nook usually is referred to a small corner in a room , or a alcove or even a hidden and remote spot somewhere.

A cranny is is a very, very tiny narrow opening like a crack in a rock or wall.

Examples below:

An example of how to use the word: ‘nook’.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach. Harry Mathews.

An example of how to use the word: ‘cranny’.

In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies—Dryden.



An example of how to use the phrase: ‘nook and cranny’.

"I have searched every nook and cranny and cannot find it!" Meaning that one has really made a good search in every possible area.

Another example:
I have looked in every nook and cranny for my pen.

Answer 2

You'd never eat in a cranny, but you can eat in a Breakfast nook.

I think a cranny is a place separated by two walls, beside each other, whereas a nook has a floor and walls at 90 degrees to each each other. A cranny could be outside too, but nooks are in a house I would think.

Interesting qu.

Answer 3

Crannies

Answer 4

A nook is a small corner or recess. In Scotland and the North of England a chimney nook was the corner of a large fireplace where folk would sit to be warm and comfortable.

A cranny is a fissure, crack or crevice in rock formations. Sometimes applied to narrow passages.

Answer 5

A nook has 2 o's, whereas a cranny has 2 n's.

Answer 6

Both of them can mean the same, but, in looking at the definition at dictionary.com, nook is a small secluded corner in a house or similar place. A cranny can be a fissure or small recess in a wall. Make sense?

Answer 7

A Nook,
A small corner, alcove, or recess, especially one in a large
room.
OR
A hidden or secluded spot.


A Cranny,
A small, narrow opening in a wall, rock, etc.

In Scotland the phrase would be used as
"I have searched every nook and cranny and cannot find it!"
Meaning one had looked in every possible place!
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Answer 8

A nook is a low spot and a cranny is up high- both are places that you can store or hide objects.

Answer 9

I think a Nook is a corner,whereas a cranny is like a crack

Answer 10

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nook

nook, n.

1. A small corner, alcove, or recess, especially one in a large
room.

2. A hidden or secluded spot.



[Middle English nok, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialectal nōk, hook.]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cranny

cranny, n.

cran·ny /ˈkræni/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kran-ee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -nies.
1.a small, narrow opening in a wall, rock, etc.; chink; crevice; fissure: They searched every nook and cranny for the missing ring.
2.a small out-of-the-way place or obscure corner; nook.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME crany, perh. < MF crené, ptp. of crener to notch, groove; see crenel]

There does seem to be at least some overlap. "Nook" possibly has more of a connotation of being manmade than "cranny." I have heard "nook" used separately (I believe there used to be a bookstore called the Book Nook), but I don't think I've ever heard "cranny" used without "nook."