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单词 creepie
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creepien.

Brit. /ˈkriːpi/, U.S. /ˈkripi/, Scottish English /ˈkripɪ/
Forms: Also creepy.
Etymology: < creep v. + -y suffix6.
Scottish and dialect.
1.
a. A low stool. Also creepie-stool, creepy stool.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > low
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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.
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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.)
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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).
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