† creachyadj.
Obsolete or dialect.
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1. See creechy adj. at creech n. Derivatives.
2. dialect. Broken down, dilapidated, infirm; sickly, ailing; = crazy adj. 1, 2.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety
seely1562
crazy1583
ramshackled1675
creachy1715
rickly1715
rickety1741
palsified1775
shackling1790
ramshackling1815
paralytic1824
rackety1824
rattletrap1824
cocklety1828
ramshackle1830
shickery?1833
shackly1843
shattery1844
shaky1850
ramshackly1857
cockly1859
rachitic1864
ruckly1866
tumble-over1883
palsied1889
rattle-bag1896
shauchly1896
bockety1902
ruggy1929
rickety-rackety1931
ropy1942
1715 J. Byrom Let. 14 July in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. i. 31 I sent a box to London,..he may open it, but carefully, 'tis creachy.
1842 F. E. Paget St. Antholin's 44 You poor old creachy creature.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Creachy, sickly; weakly; ailing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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adj.1715