“creepeth” is a form of
creep
/kɹiːp/ verb, noun
Forms creeps creeping crept creeped crope cropen
- verb (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. “Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.”
- verb (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- verb (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. “He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.”
- verb (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction. “Prices have been creeping up all year.”
- verb (idiomatic) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself. “Old age creeps upon us.”
- verb To slip, or to become slightly displaced. “The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.”
- verb To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn. “A creeping sycophant.”
- verb To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl. “The sight made my flesh creep.”
- noun The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- noun A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- noun A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- noun (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively. “Christmas creep”
- noun (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- noun (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- noun (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- noun (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
Synonyms
crawl steal in cold flow creepazoid creeper creepoid pervert perv CRP weirdo weirdie weirdy spook crawling creeping sneak mouse pussyfoot fawn cringe cower grovel
Etymology
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 krûpe (“to creep, crawl”), Central Franconian kruffe (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Low German krepen, krupen (“to creep, crawl”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Faroese krúpa (“to creep”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to kneel down, to genuflect, to get down on one's knees”), Norwegian Bokmål krype (“to creep”), Norwegian Nynorsk krjupa, krjupe, krypa, krype (“to creep, crawl”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
- verb To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- noun The act or process of creeping.
- noun A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
Etymology [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “creep”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details