Crick vs Creek - What's the difference?
crick | creek |
A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)
A small jackscrew.
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
(Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Any turn or winding.
As nouns the difference between crick and creek
is that crick is a painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected (compare catch) or crick can be (appalachian) or crick can be the creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it while creek is a small inlet or bay, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.As a verb crick
is to violently spasm.crick
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
