creepie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 George MacDonald
"I thought you were the creepie out there, coming for a look," he whispered.
From Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison
I found myself being pressed gently down from the low creepie to the floor.
From My Lady of the Chimney Corner by Alexander Irvine
She took her creepie and sat, and looked on the sea; but, whether she looked seaward or landward, all seemed unreal; not things, but hard pictures of things, some moving, some still.
From Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade
A woman sat on a creepie, her face turned over her shoulder to see who came.
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
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