creek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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 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).
Inflected forms:
form: creeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
US
dialectal
form: crike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
obsolete
form: cryke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
obsolete
form: crik
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: 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.
gloss: The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
examples: 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.
gloss: Any turn or winding.
pos: noun
Synonyms: beck
brook
burn
stream
brook
branch
bayou
Derived words: Acacia Creek
Albany Creek
Alice Creek
Alligator Creek
Alumy Creek
Amamoor Creek
Anna Creek
Antietam Creek
Apple Tree Creek
Archies Creek
Armstrong Creek
Arthurs Creek
Axe Creek
Babyl Creek
Back Creek
Badger Creek
Badgerys Creek
Baerami Creek
Baffle Creek
Bakers Creek
Bamboo Creek
Bandy Creek
Banks Creek
Barker Creek Flat
Barkers Creek
Barking Creek
Barretts Creek
Batar Creek
Battle Creek
Bean Creek
Bear Creek
Beavercreek
Beaver Creek
Beelbi Creek
Bees Creek
Bella Creek
Bellbird Creek
Belle Creek
Bells Creek
Berrys Creek
Beswick Creek
Big Creek
Big Jacks Creek
Big Pats Creek
Billys Creek
Bingeebeebra Creek
Black Creek
Black Duck Creek
Blackfellows Creek
Blackwood Creek
Blakney Creek
Blaxlands Creek
Bobs Creek
Boeill Creek
Bohena Creek
Bombowlee Creek
Bone Creek
Booerie Creek
Boomi Creek
Borah Creek
Boree Creek
Bostocks Creek
Bottle Creek
Boulder Creek
Bow Creek
Bowmans Creek
Boxers Creek
Brady Creek
Branch Creek
Brandy Creek
Brays Creek
Breakaway Creek
Breakfast Creek
Bream Creek
Bridge Creek
Brogans Creek
Brogers Creek
Broken Creek
Brown Hill Creek
Browns Creek
Brungle Creek
Brush Creek
Brushy Creek
Buffalo Creek
Bulla Creek
Bullawa Creek
Bull Creek
Bulli Creek
Bunya Creek
Burnett Creek
Burns Creek
Burra Creek
Burrell Creek
Butchers Creek
Byrrill Creek
Cabbage Tree Creek
Calico Creek
Callaghans Creek
Camerons Creek
Campbell Creek
Campbells Creek
Camp Creek
Canal Creek
Canning Creek
Cannon Creek
Cannons Creek
Canteen Creek
Capeen Creek
Captain Creek
Carbine Creek
Carneys Creek
Carrolls Creek
Carrs Creek
Castle Creek
Cattle Creek
Cedar Brush Creek
Cedar Creek
Chandlers Creek
Charley Creek
Chasm Creek
Cherry Creek
Chilcotts Creek
Chinghee Creek
Chinle Creek
Chowan Creek
Christmas Creek
Chum Creek
Clara Creek
Clarke Creek
Clear Creek
Clifton Creek
Clothiers Creek
Clouds Creek
Coal Creek
Cochranes Creek
Coconut Creek
Coes Creek
Coghills Creek
Coles Creek
Collett Creek
Collins Creek
Commissioners Creek
Cona Creek
Coochin Creek
Cooleys Creek
Coomalie Creek
Cooneys Creek
Cooper's Creek
Cowley Creek
Cowleys Creek
Coxs Creek
Crabbes Creek
Crayfish Creek
creekbank
creek bed
creekbed
creek boat
creeker
creekfish
creekfront
Creek Junction
creekless
creeklet
creekline
Creekmouth
creek plum
creekside
Creek View
creekward
creekwards
creekwater
creeky
Creightons Creek
Cressbrook Creek
Cripple Creek
Crooked Creek
Croppa Creek
Cross Creek
Crystal Creek
Cudgera Creek
Cudlee Creek
Culmaran Creek
Culmuran Creek
Curra Creek
Currency Creek
Daadenning Creek
Dales Creek
Dalrymple Creek
Damper Creek
Darr Creek
Darts Creek
Davis Creek
Dawson Creek
Dead Nigger Creek
Deep Creek
Deer Creek
Delaneys Creek
Denicull Creek
Devereux Creek
Devils Creek
Diamond Creek
Dignams Creek
Dirty Creek
Dixons Creek
Doctor Creek
Donald Creek
Dora Creek
Doubtful Creek
Dows Creek
Doyles Creek
Dry Creek
dry creek
Duck Creek
Dumpy Creek
Duncans Creek
Duns Creek
East Creek
East Deep Creek
Eastern Creek
Eden Creek
Edith Creek
Eight Mile Creek
Elaman Creek
Emu Creek
England Creek
Etna Creek
Eulah Creek
Eungai Creek
Fall Creek
Falls Creek
Farrars Creek
Fentons Creek
Fernbank Creek
Ferny Creek
Findon Creek
Fish Creek
Fitzgerald Creek
Flaggy Creek
Flagstone Creek
Fletcher Creek
Fly Creek
Flynns Creek
Forbes Creek
Forest Creek
Forge Creek
Fortis Creek
Four Mile Creek
Frazers Creek
Frenches Creek
Freshwater Creek
Furry Creek
Fyans Creek
Gaffneys Creek
Garden Island Creek
Geegully Creek
Georges Creek
German Creek
Giants Creek
Glen Creek
Glennies Creek
Godfreys Creek
God willing and the creek don't rise
Googa Creek
Goorganga Creek
Goose Creek
Gorge Creek
Gould Creek
Gradys Creek
Grahams Creek
Green Creek
Greens Creek
Gregors Creek
Groper Creek
Gulf Creek
Gum Creek
Hail Creek
Halfway Creek
Halls Creek
Haly Creek
Hamilton Creek
Hanleys Creek
Havengore Creek
Haw Creek
Hawkins Creek
Herons Creek
Hickeys Creek
Hines Creek
Hoddles Creek
Honey Creek
Hopkins Creek
Horse Creek
Horseshoe Creek
Horse Station Creek
Hovells Creek
Howes Creek
Huon Creek
Hutton Creek
Hydes Creek
Hyndmans Creek
Icy Creek
Iguana Creek
Iron Pot Creek
Ivory Creek
Jacks Creek
Jacob Creek
James Creek
Jarra Creek
Jarvis Creek
Joyces Creek
Judds Creek
Julia Creek
Jupiter Creek
Kandanga Creek
Kangaroo Creek
Kelsey Creek
Kemps Creek
Kennaicle Creek
Kennedys Creek
Kerrs Creek
Kidaman Creek
King Creek
Kings Creek
Knapp Creek
Kobble Creek
Kunghur Creek
Laceys Creek
Laguña Creek
Laidley Creek West
Lakes Creek
Lances Creek
Langhorne Creek
Lankeys Creek
Lee Creek
Leigh Creek
Leigh Creek Station
Licking Creek
Limeburners Creek
Limestone Creek
Lindesay Creek
Little Back Creek
Little Jacks Creek
Lloyd Creek
Lonesome Creek
Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Lost Creek
Lotus Creek
Louisa Creek
Lower Acacia Creek
Lower Bottle Creek
Lower Creek
Lower Duck Creek
Lynchs Creek
Mabel Creek
Macdonalds Creek
Machine Creek
Macks Creek
Mahogany Creek
Main Creek
Majors Creek
Ma Ma Creek
Mambray Creek
Mangrove Creek
Maple Creek
Maramingo Creek
Maria Creeks
Marom Creek
Martins Creek
Marys Creek
Maules Creek
McCarrs Creek
McHarg Creek
McIntosh Creek
McKenzie Creek
McMahons Creek
Meadow Creek
Mena Creek
Menzies Creek
Merritts Creek
Mica Creek
Micket Creek
Middle Creek
Mill Creek
Miry Creek
Moggs Creek
Mogo Creek
Mole Creek
Moleville Creek
Mooney Mooney Creek
Mooral Creek
Moore Creek
Mortons Creek
Mosquito Creek
Mountain Creek
Mount Cole Creek
Mp Creek
Mulla Creek
Mullett Creek
Mullion Creek
Mullumbimby Creek
Mundic Creek
Mungay Creek
Munna Creek
Murphys Creek
Muscle Creek
Myall Creek
Myrtle Creek
Newee Creek
Nine Mile Creek
Nobbys Creek
North Deep Creek
Nowhere Creek
Nyrang Creek
Oak Creek
Oakey Creek
Oaky Creek
Oberne Creek
Old Mill Creek
Orange Creek
Otter Creek
Owens Creek
Oyster Creek
Pages Creek
Paint Creek
Palen Creek
Panther Creek
Paris Creek
Peacock Creek
Pearces Creek
Pegs Creek
Petticoat Creek
Pheasant Creek
Pie Creek
Pierces Creek
Pikes Creek
Pincher Creek
Pine Creek
Pine Creek Station
Pipe Creek
Pipers Creek
Plunketts Creek
Pola Creek
Porters Creek
Possum Creek
Pound Creek
Powers Creek
Prairie Creek
Pryor Creek
Punchs Creek
Rapid Creek
Redbank Creek
Red Creek
Reedy Creek
Reids Creek
Rendezvous Creek
Repentance Creek
Reserve Creek
Riddells Creek
Riggs Creek
Ringtail Creek
Rixs Creek
Roche Creek
Rock Creek
Rocky Creek
Rodgers Creek
Roseberry Creek
Ross Creek
Rowlands Creek
Ruby Creek
run like a dry creek
Running Creek
Rush Creek
Rushes Creek
Salt Creek
Sandy Creek
Sawpit Creek
Scott Creek
Scotts Creek
Scrubby Creek
Scrub Creek
Separation Creek
Shady Creek
Shark Creek
Sharps Creek
Sheans Creek
Sheep Station Creek
Silver Creek
Simpkins Creek
Simpsons Creek
Sisters Creek
Skenes Creek
Skenes Creek North
Slacks Creek
Slaty Creek
Smiths Creek
Smythes Creek
Soda Creek
Soochow Creek
Sorell Creek
Spargo Creek
Spicers Creek
Spicketts Creek
Splinter Creek
Splitters Creek
Split Yard Creek
Spring Creek
Steels Creek
Stewart Creek Valley
Stockyard Creek
Stony Creek
Stotts Creek
Stow Creek
Strath Creek
Stuarts Creek
Sturt Creek
subcreek
Sugarloaf Creek
Sulphur Creek
Summer Hill Creek
Sunday Creek
Sutherlands Creek
Suzhou Creek
Swan Creek
Sweetmans Creek
Swifts Creek
Tabbil Creek
Tamrookum Creek
Tennant Creek
Terania Creek
Terrace Creek
Thanes Creek
Theresa Creek
Thumb Creek
Tilligerry Creek
Timber Creek
Titaatee Creek
Toms Creek
Tonghi Creek
Torrens Creek
Tothill Creek
Trotter Creek
Trunkey Creek
Tuntable Creek
Turkey Creek
Turtons Creek
Twelve Mile Creek
Tyalgum Creek
up a creek
up a creek without a paddle
upcreek
Upper Coopers Creek
Upper Cooyar Creek
Upper Crystal Creek
Upper Duck Creek
Upper Eden Creek
Upper Horseshoe Creek
Upper Ryans Creek
Upper Wilsons Creek
up poo creek
Upsalls Creek
up shit creek
up shit creek without a paddle
up shit's creek
up shit's creek without a paddle
up the creek
up the creek without a paddle
Utchee Creek
Valencia Creek
Vance Creek
Verges Creek
Wallaces Creek
Warragai Creek
Warrah Creek
Warrazambil Creek
Warrell Creek
Wascana Creek
Watsons Creek
Wattle Creek
Webbers Creek
Webbs Creek
Welcome Creek
Werris Creek
West Creek
Western Creek
Weston Creek
Wheeny Creek
Whim Creek
Whiska Creek
Whiteheads Creek
Whiteman Creek
Wild Cattle Creek
William Creek
Willow Creek
Wilson Creek
Wilsons Creek
Wise Creek
Wisemans Creek
Wolli Creek
Wombat Creek
Wongo Creek
Wood Creek
Woody Creek
Woopen Creek
Wrights Creek
Wylie Creek
Wyong Creek
Yandina Creek
Yandoo Creek
Yankees Creek
Yarra Creek
Yaven Creek
Yerong Creek
Yippin Creek
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