creepie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A passage thus cleared, he floated out first a chair, then a creepie, and one thing after another, to learn from what point to start the barrel.
From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George
Na," said the object, "nane can sit on that creepie but the minnie o' me—Corp-licht Kate o' the Star.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
She hastened, instead, to place a chair for him as she had done when first he entered the cottage, and when he had taken it sat down at his feet on her creepie.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
"I thought you were the creepie out there, coming for a look," he whispered.
From Planet of the Damned by Harrison, Harry
The poor girl suffered herself to be dressed, and then sat down on a "creepie" in the chimney corner, and buried her face in her hands.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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