nonce-wd. [f. mod. L. forficul-a (see prec.) + -ATE3.] intr. To have a ‘creeping’ sensation, as if a forficula or earwig were crawling over one’s skin.
1849. Lytton, Caxtons, VIII. iii. There is not a part of me that has not gone cr-cr-cr!—that has not crept, crawled, and forficulated ever since.
