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

  1. 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"

  2. Creep as a verb (intransitive):

    Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

  3. 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."

  4. Creep as a verb (intransitive):

    To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

    Examples:

    "uxi Prices have been creeping up all year."

  5. 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."

  6. 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."

  7. 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."

  8. 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."

  9. Creep as a verb:

    To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

  1. Creep as a noun:

    The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)

  2. Creep as a noun:

    A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

  3. Creep as a noun:

    A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something

  4. 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 "

  5. 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.

  6. Creep as a noun (materials science):

    An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

  7. Creep as a noun (geology):

    The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

  8. Creep as a noun (informal, pejorative):

    Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

  9. 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!"

  10. Creep as a noun (agriculture):

    A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

  1. Stinker as a noun:

    A person who stinks.

  2. Stinker as a noun (slang):

    A contemptible person.

  3. Stinker as a noun (slang):

    Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).

  4. Stinker as a noun (slang):

    Something of poor quality.

  5. 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.

  6. Stinker as a noun (slang):

    A chemist.