creek

WOTD - 18 October 2008    

See also Creek

English

Etymology

creke, from kryk, from Old Norse kriki.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: krēk IPA: /kriːk/, SAMPA: /kri:k/

  Rhymes: -iːk

  Homophone: creak

• (US) IPA: /krik/, /krɪk/, SAMPA: /kri:k/, /krIk/

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  Homophones: creak, crick

Noun

Wikipedia creek (plural creeks)

1. (UK, India) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
2. (Australian, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
3. Any turn or winding.

Synonyms

• beck, brook, burn, stream

Derived terms

• up the creek

Translations

small inlet or bay

Bulgarian: бухта (bg) f., тясно заливче (bg) Dutch: kreek (nl) m. and f. Esperanto: kriko (eo) Finnish: poukama (fi) German: Bucht (de) f.

Hungarian: öböl (hu) Limburgish: krieëk (li) m. Malay: serokan (ms) Spanish: caleta (es) f. West Frisian: sleat (fy)

stream of water

Armenian: գետակ (hy) (getak) Bulgarian: поток (bg) Czech: potok (cs) m. Finnish: puro (fi) French: ruisseau (fr) m. Galician: regato (gl) m.

German: Bach (de) m. Hungarian: patak (hu) Malay: anak sungai (ms) Norwegian: bekk (no), liten (no) elv (no) Portuguese: riacho (pt) m. Spanish: arroyo (es) m.

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• Maori: manga