creepy stool

noun

A low stool.

Meanings

nouncreepy stool (plural creepy stools)

plural creepy stools · alternative creepie stool

  1. IrelandScotlandA low stool.

    An hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some benches.

    1903, W. B. Yeats, The Hour-Glass
    1 more example

    Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven spilt from their pintpots […].

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 42
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