creepy-crawly

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(plural creepy-crawlies) (informal) an insect, a worm, etc. when you think of it as unpleasant

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creepy-crawlyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary creepy-crawlyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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