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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Creepy.
  • adjective Feeling as if covered with moving things.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a sensation as of the contact of crawling things.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective colloq. Creepy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a sensation of being covered in moving things such as insects

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From crawl +‎ -y.

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