crawler
English
noun
Definitions
- (Australia) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
- (UK) A sycophant.
Etymology
Suffix from English crawl (by dragging the body along the ground, move slowly, act in a servile manner).
Origin
English
crawl
Gloss
by dragging the body along the ground, move slowly, act in a servile manner
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acrawl English
- backcrawl English
- becrawl English
- bellycrawl English
- crawl English
- crawlable English
- crawlerway English
- crawlsome English
- crawlway English
- crawly English
- metacrawler English
- newscrawl English
- night English
- nightcrawler English
- outcrawl English
- recrawl English
- wall English
- wall crawler English
- wall-crawler English
- wallcrawl English
- wallcrawler English
- way English
- crawl Italian
- crawl French
- crau Portuguese
- crawl Portuguese
- crawl Swedish
- crawlen Middle English
- krol Icelandic