creepieEtymologyFrom creep + -ie.nounA low stool.“Pleased with the fire which his tales struck from me, as well as teazed by my indefatigable importunity and endless questions, as I sat on a creepy by his knee, my good Seannachy let me into the following secrets in the natural history of Elfland, which I can still find as interesting as I did thirty years ago, although for somewhat different reasons.”