creepie

plural creepies

1. ScotlandarchaicA low stool.

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   Pleased with the fire which his tales struck from me, as well as teazed by my indefatigable importunity and endless questions, as I sat on a creepy by his knee, my good Seannachy let me into the following secrets in the natural history of Elfland, which I can still find as interesting as I did thirty years ago, although for somewhat different reasons.

   1814, Robert Jamieson, “Rosmer Half-Mand, or the Mer-Man Rosmer”, in Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances, page 404

   Synonyms: creepie stool