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Definition: CRAWLY |
CRAWLYAdjective1. Creepy. |
Date "CRAWLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Crosswords: CRAWLY |
| Etymologies containing "CRAWLY": Creepy. (references) |
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| "CRAWLY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 33.33% of the time. "CRAWLY" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adverb (general) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CRAWLY": creepy-crawly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
creepy crawly | 14 |
kreepy crawly | 6 |
crawly skin | 2 |
crawly mr | 2 |
alister crawly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CRAWLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | hmyz (bugs, creepy-crawly, insect, vermin). (various references) | |
Farsi | خزنده (Creeper, Worm). (various references) | |
German | kribbelnd. (various references) | |
Greek | ερπετοειδήσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | viszketős (itchy, scratchy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | わが国 (arc, architecture, archive, archiver, argument, argyle, argyle check, be excited, bustling, creepy crawly, get nervous, hiragana for "we", hiragana for "wi", our country, our land, shuffling, slit, squirming, tremble, vagina, vulva). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | わらわら (bustling, creepy crawly, shuffling, squirming). (various references) | |
Manx | feayght drommey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awlycray.(various references) | |
Russian | испытывающий ощущение мурашек по телу. (various references) | |
Turkish | tüyler ürpertici (bloodcurdling, dreadfull, eerie, eery, formidable, grisly, hair raising, haircurling, shivery, unearthly), ürkütücü (basilisk, eerie, eery, frightening, gruesome, macabre, parlous, scary, spine-chilling, startling). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thấy râm ran như có kiến bò. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CRAWLY": scrawly. (additional references) | |
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"CRAWLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrawl, calway, carly, cawy, Chalwyn, cradly, Cramley, Craweley, Crawle, Crawleys, crawny, crealy, crewy, croawl, Krauly, scrawly, Shrawley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRAWLY" (pronounced krô"lē) |
| 3 | -ô" l ē | Wallie, Wally. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: clary, crawl, rawly. | |
-2 letters: acyl, aryl, awry, carl, claw, clay, craw, lacy, racy, waly, wary, yawl. | |
-3 letters: arc, awl, car, caw, cay, cry, lac, lar, law, lay, raw, ray, rya, war, way, wry, yar, yaw. | |
-4 letters: al, ar, aw, ay, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: scrawly. | |
+2 letters: clayware, cowardly, crawlway. | |
+3 letters: claywares, crawlways. | |
+4 letters: backwardly. | |
+5 letters: clergywoman. | |
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