crevice

Etymology

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

noun

  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
    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.
    A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks. 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

verb

  1. To crack; to flaw.

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