creep

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
2. To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3. To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
4. 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. (slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Noun

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

Concepts

ramper

faire

se glisser

avancer lentement

personnage

reptation

grimper

bondir

monter

fatigue

rampement

faon

fluage

fluer

fils de pute

avancer au pas

glisser

déambuler

faire un tour

flâner

promener

se balader

se promener

vadrouiller

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɹiːp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep