creep

• vi.忍び寄る; 広がる; ゆっくりと動く; 鳥肌が立つ
• n. ゾッとする；不気味な感じ；おべっか使い

PIE*gerの「曲げる」「回す」から。 語源：crook、crank。

creep

creep: [OE] Creep is an ancient verb, which has been traced back to Indo–European *greub-. This was the source also of Dutch kriupen and Swedish krypa ‘creep’, and of Lithuanian grubineti ‘stumble’, and links have been suggested with English cripple. The related Indo-European *greug- produced German kriechen ‘creep’.
=> cripple

creep (v.)

Old English creopan "to creep" (class II strong verb; past tense creap, past participle cropen), from Proto-Germanic *kreupan (cognates: Old Frisian kriapa, Middle Dutch crupen, Old Norse krjupa "to creep"), perhaps from a PIE root *g(e)r- "crooked" [Watkins]. Related: Crept; creeping.

creep (n.)

"a creeping motion," 1818, from creep (v.). Meaning "despicable person" is 1935, American English slang, perhaps from earlier sense of "sneak thief" (1914). Creeper "a gilded rascal" is recorded from c. 1600, and the word also was used of certain classes of thieves, especially those who robbed customers in brothels. The creeps "a feeling of dread or revulsion" first attested 1849, in Dickens.

1. The desire to be a mother may creep up on you unexpectedly.

あなたは知らずのうちに母親になりたいという渇望を抱くことができます。

2.I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.

こっそり入って、二階を軽く見てみます。

3.Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room.

私はホテルに戻り、抜き足差し足で2階に上がって部屋に戻った。

4.It makes my flesh creep to think of it.

それを考えるとぞっとします。

5.They 'll creep up on you while you 're asleep.

彼らはあなたが寝ている間にそっと近づいてきます。