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creepie Sc. and dial.|ˈkriːpɪ|
Also creepy.
[f. creep v. + -y or -ie, denominative.]
1. a. A low stool. Also creepie-stool, creepy stool.
1661Mercurius Caledonius, To assemble all her Creels, Basquets, Creepies, Furmes. a1756Sc. Song, Logie o' Buchan, I sit on my creepie and spin at my wheel. 1859Dickens Haunted House vii. 34 He sat between his parents..and Bessy on the old creepie-stool. 1865Reader 18 Nov. 579/3 Carrying her creepie in one hand and her milking-pail in the other. 1892J. Barlow Irish Idylls vii. 178 Pat, set the ould creepy stool for Mrs. Doyne. 1903W. B. Yeats Hour-Glass (1904) 3 A creepy stool near it. 1922Joyce Ulysses 43 Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven.
b. ‘It sometimes denotes the stool of repentance’ (Jamieson). Also creepie-chair.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. viii, It's a wise wife that kens her weird, What tho' ye mount the creepy? 1794Burns Rantin Dog iii, When I mount the creepie-chair, Wha will sit beside me there?
2. A small speckled fowl. (U.S. local.)
1854Trans. Penns. Agric. Soc. 163 The variety of poultry exhibited..comprising, in the tribe of barn-yard fowls,..the Frizzle; the Creely and the Creepy. |