creep

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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.

crawl

sneak

move slowly

still hunt

advance slowly

steal up on

walk stealthily

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

ratink

creep in

crum

drag one’s feet

low life

Pircarînî

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/kɹiːp/

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