What is "crawly"

Usage examples of "crawly".

And then the eggs of all the larger creepy crawlies that fed on the little creepy crawlies would hatch, and so on, all the way up the food chain, until even the worms would come out and gorge themselves.

I even sprayed bugweed juice on the thing in the lib’ary to keep the crawlies off’n it.

It smashed and ran beneath his sharp chiv, staining them with green juice and giving him a crawly feeling he was hard pressed not to show.

You could sleep on the bed, and the bug spray had probably done for all the crawly things.

You see, just before hatching, the older dragonets bring seaweed to form a ring about the clutch, and offer fish and crawlies and anything else they can find to the hatchlings.

What other purpose they served Tai did not know, but they were less of a nuisance than some crawlies and rather curious to watch.

Snails is pure-out crawlies, and anybody goes to eat ‘em is a goddam crawly eater, like I said.

He tucked himself into a fork the way he had been taught, and he passed the crawliest, tickliest night he had ever known.

Harrison even told the story sometimes right in front of Lolla-Wossiky, and the one-eyed drunk just nodded and laughed and grinned and acted like he had no brains at all, no human dignity, just about the lowest, crawliest Red that Hooch ever seen.

We of Earth have exported everything from Hollywood crawlies to synthetic radioactives, but this belongs solely to Terra, and to her sons and daughters wherever they may be.

Little Tommy Falkner had always been curious about the planets, about space, the original space bug himself at a time when such things were mysteries to the general public, but it had given him a crawly feeling and a week of night­mares to think about those 1947 saucers.