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crawly

crawly adjective: crawling around.

Adjective

crawly (comparative crawlier, superlative crawliest)

  1. Crawling around.
    • Another 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.1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    • a crawly insect
  2. As if covered in moving things such as insects.
    • a crawly sensation

crawly meaning in Bengali

crawly in Bengali

চারপাশে হামাগুড়ি দিচ্ছে এমন

Forms of crawly

comparativecrawlier
superlativecrawliest

Origin of crawly

From crawl + -y.

Phrases with crawly

Questions about crawly

What does crawly mean?
Crawly means crawling around.
What is crawly in Bengali?
Crawly in Bengali is চারপাশে হামাগুড়ি দিচ্ছে এমন. See Crawly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is crawly?
Crawly is an adjective.

Words near crawly in the dictionary

  1. crawlsome
  2. crawlspace
  3. crawlspaces
  4. crawlway
  5. crawlways
  6. crawly
  7. Crawney
  8. craws
  9. crawsful
  10. Crawshaw
  11. Crawshaws

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crawly (page history and authors); crawly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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