creepy-crawlies

1. 1.

   feelings of dislike and anxiety

   “the cave gave me the creepy-crawlies”

   Broaderdislike

Questions about creepy-crawlies

What does creepy-crawlies mean?

creepy-crawlies means "feelings of dislike and anxiety".

How many syllables are in creepy-crawlies?

creepy-crawlies has 4 syllables and divides as cree-py--craw-lies under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is creepy-crawlies a common word?

creepy-crawlies is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.