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creek

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/ˈkɹiːk/
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/ˈkɹiːk/ · [kʰɹʷɪi̯k] · /ˈkɹɪk/ · [ˈkʰɹʷɪk]

Definition of creek

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (British)A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
    “Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.”
    “There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.”
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noun

  1. (British)A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
    “Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.”
    “There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.”
  2. (British)The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
  3. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US)A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
    “We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it.”
  4. Any turn or winding.
  5. One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.

name

  1. The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.
  2. A surname.
  3. (slang)The ship of characters Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak from the South Park series.
    “For at least a decade, people on the internet have been drawing fan art of the love between this two characters (a ship known as "Creek"). A cursory search of DeviantArt shows Creek art dating back to 2005. And when Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided it was finally time to acknowledge Creek and their surprisingly robust online fandom, they went straight to the source, soliciting real drawings from users online.”
    “The episode’s humor and heart speak to viewers bemused at the concept of yaoi and devoted “Creek” shippers alike, but it isn’t the child characters learning something by the show’s conclusion. Instead, it’s a father who learns a lesson about being a better parent to his son.”
    “This [“Tweek vs. Craig”] is a regular season 3 outing that aired in June 1999, and I picked it not merely because I'm a hardcore Creek shipper.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to the Creek tribe.
    “The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.”

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Etymology

From Middle English crike, probably from Old Norse kriki, from Proto-Germanic *krikjô, variant of krekô, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, to wind”); the modern form creek (already late Middle English…

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From Middle English crike, probably from Old Norse kriki, from Proto-Germanic *krikjô, variant of krekô, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, to wind”); the modern form creek (already late Middle English creke) either reflects open-syllable lengthening of Middle English /i/ or reborrowing from Middle Dutch krēke., Compare typologically English bight, akin to bend, bow. See also Old Dutch creka, crika (“inlet, cove, creek”), Medieval Latin creca, crica, kríkr (“angle, corner, nook, bay”), Old Norse kraki (“pole with a hook, anchor”), and possibly Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”). Modern cognates include West Frisian kreek (“creek”), Dutch kreek (“creek, cove, inlet, bight”), and French crique (“cove”) (borrowed from Germanic). Early British colonists of Australia and the Americas used the term in the usual British way, to name inlets; as settlements followed the inlets upstream and inland, the names were retained and creek came to be used to refer to any small waterway. A similar semantic development occurred in Dutch and French, where the word originally meant "bay" but came to mean "stream" especially in the French and Dutch colonies (French Guiana, Dutch Guiana and Indonesia).

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