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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/

名詞

crevice (plural crevices)

1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
   • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 13:

     [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.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.

2. (slang) The vagina.
   • 2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130:

     […] 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.

派生語

動詞

crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)

1. To crack; to flaw.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

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

参照

• “crevice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crevice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “crevice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.