🇬🇧 Creepy-crawly meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A creepy-crawly is any tiny creature, like a bug, spider, or worm, that usually has lots of legs, wiggles or crawls on the ground, and can make people feel a little scared, itchy, or ticklish when they see it or imagine it crawling on them.

I bravely picked up the creepy-crawly with a cup, then bravely screamed until someone else put a lid on it.

My sister saw one little creepy-crawly and invented a new Olympic sport called "Running Out of the Room While Yelling."

I saw a creepy-crawly on my pillow and decided I no longer needed sleep for the rest of my life.

Grandma said creepy-crawlies are more scared of us, but this one looked pretty confident doing push-ups on my desk.

Some people call insects and spiders "creepy-crawlies," and scientists say there are millions of kinds.

At dusk, Sam felt something on his neck — a tiny creepy-crawly. He froze, eyes wide, then brushed it to his palm. He held the creepy-crawly gently. The little creepy-crawly tickled and crawled toward his finger. He smiled, surprised, and carried the creepy-crawly outside. On the garden grass the brave creepy-crawly scuttled away; Sam laughed and watched it go.

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