creevles

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English

Noun

creevles pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, archaic) A creeping feeling; formication.
    • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
      "Jimmy Christmas! Thet gives me the blue creevles," said Dan. "What in thunder is it?"
    • 1884, Orson Squire Fowler, Physiology, Animal and Mental, Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind, page 263:
      But the evils of diseased nerves do not stop here. […] They not only inflict the creevles and the fidgets upon the body, but still more upon the mind.
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