What does creepy mean?

Question:i've heard this term a lot, like a creepy person, but i've never really understood. what constitutes creepiness? explain please.

Answers:
To me "creepy" is something or someone that makes your body feel more than just a little uncomfortable.
You may get goose bumps, or shiver, or just feel like getting away from where you are.
It's a mild form of the "fight or flight" response being triggered.
CREEP

noun
1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
2. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
3. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
4. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl]

verb
1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [syn: crawl]
2. to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak]
3. grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
4. show submission or fear [syn: fawn]
For me the term creepy person means, this person you feel fear in him, something inside him that you don't trust.
Creepy to me is when you see the thing coming out of the ground with worms and bugs and stuff all over it and it makes your skin crawl with geese.

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