creepy-crawly

What does creepy-crawly mean?

creepy-crawly means "an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in creepy-crawly?

creepy-crawly has 4 syllables: cree-py--craw-ly. The stress falls on "py-".

What is another word for creepy-crawly?

Close synonyms include creepy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is creepy-crawly a common word?

creepy-crawly 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for creepy-crawly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.