different between creek vs brooklet

English

Alternative forms

• crick (dialectical US)
• crik (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English cr?ke, from Old Norse kriki. Early British colonists of Australia and the Americas used the term in the usual British way, to name inlets; as settlements followed the inlets upstream and inland, the names were retained and creek was reinterpreted as a general term for a small waterway.. Compare Dutch kreek, and French crique, both from the same source.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?k IPA^(key): /k?i?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?ik/, (Appalachia) /k??k/
• Rhymes: -i?k, -?k
• Homophones: creak, crick

Noun

creek (plural creeks)

1. (Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, 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.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized waterbodies.
3. Any turn or winding.

Synonyms

• beck, brook, burn, stream
• (regional US terms:) run (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), brook (New England), branch (Southern US), bayou (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Southeastern Texas)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin: kriki
• Sranan Tongo: kriki

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References

Anagrams

• ecker

English

Etymology

From brook +? -let.

Noun

brooklet (plural brooklets)

1. A little brook.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.

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