Word.ws English Dictionary

creener

creener noun: an ailing or sickly person.

Noun

creener (plural creeners)

  1. (Cornwall, obsolete) An ailing or sickly person.
  2. (Cornwall, broadly, obsolete) An old person.

Forms of creener

pluralcreeners

Origin of creener

From creen (“to complain”) + -er, from Cornish krena (“to tremble”).

Questions about creener

What does creener mean?
Creener means an ailing or sickly person.
What part of speech is creener?
Creener is a noun.
What is the plural of creener?
The plural of creener is creeners.

Words near creener in the dictionary

  1. Creelys
  2. creemee
  3. creemees
  4. creen
  5. creened
  6. creener
  7. creeners
  8. creening
  9. creens
  10. creep
  11. creep in

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: creener (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “creener.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/creener. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.