creepie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When I mount the creepie chair, Wha will sit beside me there?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
"Thought you were the creepie out there, coming for a look," he whispered.
From Sense of Obligation by Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)
She put a little creepie stool under his feet, felt that his clothes were not wet, scolded the dogs to a respectful distance, and inspired the peats into a double blaze.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
"He'll tak' the daylicht wi' him, I doot, my lass," she said, as she made the porridge for breakfast one morning, and looked down anxiously at her daughter, seated on the creepie by the ingle-neuk.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
Margaret sat right under it, upon a creepie, or small three-legged wooden stool.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
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