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nouncreevles pl (plural only)
- archaiccolloquialpluralplural onlyA creeping feeling; formication.
"Jimmy Christmas! Thet gives me the blue creevles," said Dan. "What in thunder is it?"
1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC1 more example
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.
1884, Orson Squire Fowler, Physiology, Animal and Mental, Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind, page 263
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