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Crevice

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
"[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about."
2
a long narrow cleft wordnet
3
The vagina. slang
"[…] 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."
4
a long narrow depression in a surface wordnet

Verb

1
To crack; to flaw.
"they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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