Canada thistle noun

A European thistle (Cirsium arvense), now common as a fast-spreading weed throughout the northern USA (also creeping thistle)

Canadian canoe noun

A long narrow canoe, pointed at both ends, that is propelled by hand-held single-bladed paddles

Canadian football noun

A game resembling American football, but with twelve players per side and a longer field of play

Canadian French noun

French as spoken in Canada

Canadian pondweed or Canadian waterweed noun

A N American aquatic plant (Anacharis or Elodea canadensis), introduced into Europe and commonly used in ponds as an oxygenator

creep /krēp/

intransitive verb (pat and pap crept)

1. To move with the belly on or near the ground
2. To move or advance slowly or stealthily
3. To slip or encroach very gradually
4. To develop insidiously
5. To grow along the ground or on supports, as a vine does
6. To fawn or cringe
7. (of the skin or flesh) to have a shrinking sensation, as a concomitant of horror, etc
8. To shudder
9. To drag with a creeper (nautical)
10. To undergo creep (metallurgy)

transitive verb (Milton, etc)

To creep on

noun

1. The act or process or creeping
2. A slow slipping or yielding to stress
3. Crystallization or rise of a precipitate on the side of a vessel above the surface of a liquid
4. Gradual alteration of shape under stress (metallurgy)
5. A narrow passage
6. An enclosure in which young farm animals may feed, with an approach too narrow to admit the mother
7. A cringing, unassertive or otherwise unpleasant person (slang)

creepˈer noun

1. Someone or something that creeps
2. A creeping plant, eg the Virginia creeper
3. A small bird that runs up trees, a tree creeper (N American)
4. A kind of grapnel used for dragging the seabed, etc (nautical)
5. An endless chain or conveyor
6. A crêpe-soled, or other soft-soled, shoe (informal)
7. A wheeled board on which one may lie and move about while working under a vehicle
8. A ball that stays low after bouncing (cricket)

creepˈered adjective

Covered with a creeper

creepˈie noun

1. A low stool
2. A stool of repentance

creepˈily adverb

creepˈiness noun

creepˈing adjective

creepˈingly adverb

creepˈy adjective (creepˈier; creepˈiest)

Mysterious, rather eerie or chilling

creepˈ-hole noun

1. A hiding hole
2. A subterfuge

creeping bent grass noun

A common European pasture grass, Agrostris palustris

creeping eruption noun

An irritating skin condition caused by the larvae of certain flies or nematodes which burrow through the skin tissue leaving thin red lines (also larva migrans)

creeping Jenny noun

Moneywort, a creeping plant of the primrose family (Lysimachia nummularia)

creeping Jesus noun (derog sl)

A cringingly sanctimonious person

creeping thistle noun

Canada thistle (qv)

creepˈmouse adjective (archaic)

Silent and shrinking

creepy-crawlˈy noun (informal)

A creeping insect (also adjective)

the creeps (informal)

A feeling of horror or revulsion