Sc. and dial. Also creepy. [f. CREEP v. + -Y or -IE, denominative.]
1. A low stool. Also creepie-stool.
1661. Mercurius Caledonius. To assemble all her Creels, Basquets, Creepies, Furmes.
a. 1756. Sc. Song, Logie o’ Buchan. I sit on my creepie and spin at my wheel.
1859. Dickens, Haunted House, VII. 34. He sat between his parents … and Bessy on the old creepie-stool.
1865. Reader, 18 Nov., 579/3. Carrying her creepie in one hand and her milking-pail in the other.
b. ‘It sometimes denotes the stool of repentance’ (Jamieson). Also creepie-chair.
1718. Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., III. viii. It’s a wise wife that kens her weird, What tho’ ye mount the creepy?
1794. Burns, Rantin Dog, iii. When I mount the creepie-chair, Wha will sit beside me there?
2. A small speckled fowl. (U.S. local.)
