creep

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
2. (intransitive) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
4. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
5. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
6. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
7. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
8. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
9. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
10. (intransitive, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
2. (countable, uncountable) A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
3. (countable, uncountable) A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
4. (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
5. (countable, uncountable) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
6. (countable, uncountable) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
7. (countable, uncountable) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
8. (countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
9. (countable, derogatory, especially, informal, uncountable) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
10. (countable, uncountable) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Conceptos

arrastrarse

gatear

reptar

trepar

bicho

🐛

deambular

entrar

escalar

espectro

invadir

montar

pasear

pasearse

penetrar

serpentear

subir

estrafalario

hijoputa

insinuarse

serpear

guataca

aparear animales

elevarse el costo

montar animal

rampar

bicho raro

rarito

tipo raro

adular

avanzar a hurtadillas

arrastrar

ascender

cabalgar

cabrón

Sinónimos

crawl

sneak

climb

slither

cringe

stalk

steal

grovel

worm

🪱

creeping

scumbag

scum

slink

slip

slimebag

spread

glide

crud

rascal

pussyfoot

sleaze

drag

dirtbag

move slowly

slimeball

fawn

crawling

sleazeball

cower

scoundrel

still hunt

swine

scuzzbag

scuzzball

slimebucket

dirtball

move

go

sidle

advance slowly

trail

lurk

prowl

slide

weirdie

dick

tiptoe

son of a bitch

dawdle

spook

mouse

🐭

steal up on

walk stealthily

weirdy

creep up

inch

weirdo

servility

shamble

shirk

shit

💩

shiver

shudder

skid

skulk

slicker

slime

slippage

slipped

slipping

slump

slumping

snake

🐍

sneak in

so and so

son of a gun

sprawl

sprout

squirm

stinker

thrill

thug

tip

tippytoe

tootle

truckle

turd

unfold

walk

🚶

weep

whet

whisper

wriggle

writhe

ratfink

sneak up

stand on end

steal in

move stealthily

steal up

draw near unnoticed

creep about

smooth operator

creepage

schmoe

creep-hole

glide headlong

crawl on knees

glide gently

go softly

mother fucker

scum bag

creep deformation

water penetration

water percolation

creeping motion

walk gingerly

be shivering

micro-creep

trackslip.

creeping motion squirm

motion squirm

time-yield

creeping rails

wandering rails

douchebag

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

amble

ratink

ascend

bastard

bitch

blow

bootlick

brock

buster

caitiff

claw

clutch

copulate

creeper

creep in

crouch

crum

crump

decomposition

detrition

dilly-dally

dragging

drag one’s feet

drip

formicate

frog

🐸

fucker

fuckhead

gink

glissade

gook

go up

grifter

heck

hide

hone

infest

jerk

lag

lowlife

low life

mosey

mount

on tiptoe

peristalsis

raff

ramble

ride

riffraff

rip

rotter

run

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scut

Traducciones

kriechen

ramper

kruipen

schleichen

Kriechen

engerd

emeklemek

krabbeln

Arschloch

faire

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɹiːp/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: crepen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: crēopan

Cognado con frisón occidental: krippe

Cognado con frisón occidental: crjippa

Cognado con bajo alemán: krepen

Cognado con neerlandés: kruipen

Cognado con alto alemán medio: kriefen

Cognado con danés: krybe

Cognado con noruego: krype

Cognado con sueco: krypa

Cognado con islandés: krjúpa

In summary

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”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).
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