"crawly" meaning in All languages combined

See crawly on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: crawlier [comparative], crawliest [superlative]
Etymology: From crawl + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|crawl|y}} crawl + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|crawlier}} crawly (comparative crawlier, superlative crawliest)
  1. Crawling around.
    Sense id: en-crawly-en-adj-3KN~-2UG
  2. As if covered in moving things such as insects.
    Sense id: en-crawly-en-adj-pvdIqSLY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: creepy-crawly

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nAnother out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider."
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