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creepy, a.|ˈkriːpɪ|
[f. creep v. or n. + -y.]
1. Characterized by creeping or moving slowly.
1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 95 It is a creepy fluid. 1860All Year Round No. 49. 538 She is rarely still, though I am bound to say she is creepy gentleness itself. 1889J. Abercrombie E. Caucasus 180 An artistically embroidered coverlet tenanted..by countless swarms of creepy insects.
2. Having a creeping of the flesh, or chill shuddering feeling, caused by horror or repugnance.
1831Cat's Tail 30, I feel somehow quite creepy at the thought of what's coming. 1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis II. 38 There comes over him, all at once, a sort of cold, creepy shudder. 1882Macm. Mag. 444 To confess that he has felt ‘creepy’ on account of certain inexplicable sounds.
b. transf. Tending to produce such sensations.
1883G. Lloyd Ebb & Flow II. 236 The whole place seemed lonely, and, as Mildred whispered to Pauline, ‘creepy’. 1892Spectator 2 Apr. 470/1 A really effective romance of the creepy order. |