crawly
adjEtymology From crawl + -y.
1
Crawling around.
- 1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider.
- a crawly insect
2
As if covered in moving things such as insects.
- a crawly sensation
- Related terms
- creepy-crawly