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say it: kreep
creep is a noun and verb meaning "someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric". It is pronounced /ˈkɹip/ — kreep. It carries 8 recorded senses.
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
“a crawl was all that the injured man could manage”
“the traffic moved at a creep”
grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
“ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for creep come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.