creep

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 krēp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails). countable,uncountable
  2. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure. countable,uncountable
  3. A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something. countable,uncountable
  4. The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively. uncountable
    — Christmas creep
  5. In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it. countable,uncountable
  6. An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress. countable,uncountable
  7. The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock. countable,uncountable
  8. Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric. countable,derogatory,informal,uncountable
    — "You mentioned some others," I said. "More creeps," she told me. '"That guy was plain looking for trouble. You know, he starts hanging out with some of the shooters Whitey Tass keeps around, angling for an introduction to the big man himself, and he's damn lucky he got picked up by the fuzz before Whitey got sore. He runs too big an operation in the city to be bugged by a pig like Yard. One day Lou Steubal tried to get an inside track with Whitey, levering him on account of what Whitey did to his sister, and they found Lou in the drink. It looked like Lou got gassed up and fell in, but don't try to tell me that. Whitey had him tapped out."
  9. A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment. countable,derogatory,especially,informal,uncountable
    — It was whispered that the priest was a pervert. Was he? The girls said he was a creep. I didn't quite know what it meant to be a creep, but it was obviously not a good thing. It was said that he sometimes fondled the girls, their breasts, and said lousy things to them, that they were beautiful or something like that.[…]Disgusting guys. I thought the guy at Bústaðir was a creep. An old man who liked to dance.
  10. A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. intransitive
    — Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
  2. To grow across a surface rather than upwards. intransitive
  3. To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. intransitive
    — He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
  4. To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction. intransitive
    — Prices have been creeping up all year.
  5. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself. idiomatic
    — Old age creeps upon us.
  6. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
    — The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
  7. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
    — A creeping sycophant.
  8. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
    — The sight made my flesh creep.
  9. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
  10. To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with. intransitive,slang
    — Honey came in and she caught me red-handed / Creeping with the girl next door / Picture this we were both butt naked / Banging on the bathroom floor

词形变化

creeps present,singular,third-person creeping participle,present crept past creeped past crope archaic,past crept participle,past creeped participle,past crope archaic,participle,past cropen archaic,participle,past creeps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian krûpe (“to creep, crawl”), Central Franconian kruffe (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Low German krepen, krupen (“to creep, crawl”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Faroese krúpa (“to creep”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to kneel down, to genuflect, to get down on one's knees”), Norwegian Bokmål krype (“to creep”), Norwegian Nynorsk krjupa, krjupe, krypa, krype (“to creep, crawl”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
词源 2
From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian krûpe (“to creep, crawl”), Central Franconian kruffe (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Low German krepen, krupen (“to creep, crawl”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Faroese krúpa (“to creep”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to kneel down, to genuflect, to get down on one's knees”), Norwegian Bokmål krype (“to creep”), Norwegian Nynorsk krjupa, krjupe, krypa, krype (“to creep, crawl”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
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