The difference between Creep and Stinker
When used as nouns, creep means the movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails), whereas stinker means a person who stinks.
Creep is also verb with the meaning: to move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
check bellow for the other definitions of Creep and Stinker
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Creep as a verb (intransitive):
To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
Examples:
"uxi Lizards and snakes crept over the ground."
"synonyms: crawl"
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Creep as a verb (intransitive):
Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
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Creep as a verb (intransitive):
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
Examples:
"uxi He tried to creep past the guard without being seen."
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Creep as a verb (intransitive):
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
Examples:
"uxi Prices have been creeping up all year."
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Creep as a verb:
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
Examples:
"uxi Old age creeps upon us."
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Creep as a verb:
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
Examples:
"uxi The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying."
"uxi The quicksilver on a mirror may creep."
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Creep as a verb:
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
Examples:
"uxi A creeping sycophant."
"RQ:Shakespeare Troilus III iii passage=To come as humbly as they used to creep / To holy altars."
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Creep as a verb:
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
Examples:
"uxi The sight made my flesh creep."
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Creep as a verb:
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
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Creep as a noun:
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
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Creep as a noun:
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
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Creep as a noun:
A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
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Creep as a noun:
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
Examples:
"Christmas creep. Feature creep. Instruction creep. Mission creep "
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Creep as a noun (publishing):
In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
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Creep as a noun (materials science):
An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
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Creep as a noun (geology):
The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
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Creep as a noun (informal, pejorative):
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
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Creep as a noun (informal, pejorative):
A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
Examples:
"Stop following me, you creep!"
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Creep as a noun (agriculture):
A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
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Stinker as a noun:
A person who stinks.
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Stinker as a noun (slang):
A contemptible person.
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Stinker as a noun (slang):
Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
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Stinker as a noun (slang):
Something of poor quality.
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Stinker as a noun:
Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
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Stinker as a noun (slang):
A chemist.