单词 | creepie |
释义 | creepien. Scottish and dialect. 1. a. A low stool. Also creepie-stool, creepy stool. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > low sellc1384 coppy14.. buffet1432 cricket1559 cracket1635 creepie1661 crock1709 donkey1943 donkey stool1945 1661 Mercurius Caledonius To assemble all her Creels, Basquets, Creepies, Furmes. a1756 Sc. Song, Logie o' Buchan I sit on my creepie and spin at my wheel. 1859 E. C. Gaskell Haunted House: Ghost in Garden Room in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 34/2 He sat between his parents..and Bessy on the old creepie-stool. 1865 Reader 18 Nov. 579/3 Carrying her creepie in one hand and her milking-pail in the other. 1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls vii. 178 Pat, set the ould creepy stool for Mrs. Doyne. 1903 W. B. Yeats Hour-glass (1904) 3 A creepy stool near it. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 42 Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven. b. ‘It sometimes denotes the stool of repentance’ (Jamieson). Also creepie-chair. ΚΠ 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 26 It's a wise Wife that kens her Wierd, What tho' ye mount the Creepy. 1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 286 When I mount the Creepie-chair, Wha will sit beside me there. 2. A small speckled fowl. (U.S. local.) ΚΠ 1854 Trans. Penns. Agric. Soc. 163 The variety of poultry exhibited..comprising, in the tribe of barn-yard fowls,..the Frizzle; the Creely and the Creepy. 1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 380 A tailless fowl is in Pennsylvania called a bunty, and a small speckled kind a creepy (S. S. Haldeman). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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