water creeper
noun
Any water bug of the family Naucoridae, the members of which crawl about on the bottom of bodies of water and are predators capable of inflicting painful bites (also called creeping water bug).
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Robert Venables (d. 1687), parliamentarian army officer.
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