creeping
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English crepynge, crepinde, crepende, crepande, from Old English crēopende, from Proto-Germanic *kreupandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to creep, crawl”), equivalent to creep + -ing.
VerbEdit
creeping
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
NounEdit
creeping (plural creepings)
- The act of something that creeps.
- 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
- It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]
- 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons