Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cranny n.¹

the vagina.

1654		Ranters Last Sermon 2 Aug. 5: Spread forth the crannyes of those Rocks / That lie beneath your Holland smocks.
1711		‘The Fart’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 185: How the Nymphs in the days of Yore, / Who were cleanly inclin’d, / Us’d a Cork for behind, / And a Spung for the Cranny before.
1889		C. Deveureux Venus in India in Victorian Erotic Tales (1995) 110: She wished me to reserve some good portions of my force [...] for the solace of her liveliest of crannies.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 85: Crevasse, f. The female pudendum; ‘the [...] cranny’.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Family Connections 29: I chaffed them about their tight crannies and asked them what good they would be if a stout prick came knocking at the door.
1943		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 254: A lesbian lassie named Anny / Desired to appear much more manny. / So she whittled a pud / Of mahogany wood, / And let it protrude from her cranny.
c.1950		Nunnery versus Fuckery 38: He wedged the thick swollen nob of his prick in her hot wet cunny.
1976		E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 143: How is it possible for a dowd to conycatch a seer simply because she has a cranny between her legs?
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 182: The simplest words in common use for this ‘nasty thing’ [...] are those accepting the female sexual apparatus as a simple receptacle. These include [...] cranny, crack, crevice.

In compounds

cranny-hunter (n.) (also cranny-haunter)

the penis.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.