Talk:creepified

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I will store quotations here until I determine if there are enough to create the entry. — Beobach 15:45, 22 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Adjective

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creepified (comparative more creepified, superlative most creepified)

  1. (in Florida) scary, frightening; creepy
    • 1942, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek:
      You got to make allowance for the black night, and the creepified feeling a river'll give you in the dark. I sold out. I didn't say nothing to the men at camp when I got there. Next morning my spirits had done rose, [...]

Quotations

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  • 2005, Graham Masterton, Unspeakable,[1] page 110:
    When Texans from Brownsville complained that somebody was “admiring” them, they meant that they were being given the evil eye. Down in certain parishes in Florida, people spoke of a place being “creepified” instead of scary. “That was a right boogerish place, that old house, real creepified.”