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acrawl

adj

Etymology

From a- + crawl.

  1. derived from *krabblōną✻
  2. derived from krafla
  3. derived from crawlen
  4. prefixed as acrawl — “a + crawl”

Definitions

  1. Crawling.

    • 1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849, […] an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me.

  2. Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).

    • Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them.
    • His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there.
    • Why, I’ll just bet you anything that place is acrawl with black widows.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA