His wife caught him out with that blonde and then he was really up shit creek without a paddle.
Source: tatoeba (68620)
Creek
//kɹiːk//
Synonyms for "creek" (107 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
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4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesat location
8 entriesderived
607 entriesShowing 16 of 607 words.
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1 entrieshas context
5 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
7 entriesrelated to
14 entriesused for
3 entriesTranslations
112 translations across 49 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- grykë noun (small inlet or bay)
- rrjedhë noun (stream of water)
Armenian
1 entries- գետակ noun (stream of water)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бухта noun (small inlet or bay)
- поток noun (stream of water)
- тясно заливче noun (small inlet or bay)
Catalan
3 entries- cala noun (small inlet or bay)
- riera noun (stream of water)
- rierol noun (stream of water)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᎫᏌ noun (Native American tribesmember)
Chickasaw
1 entries- abookoshi noun (stream of water)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 小湾 noun (small inlet or bay)
- 小溪 noun (stream of water)
- 小灣 /小湾 noun (small inlet or bay)
Creek
1 entries- Mvskoke name (language)
Czech
2 entries- Kríkština name (language)
- potok noun (stream of water)
Dutch
2 entries- kreek noun (small inlet or bay)
- slenk noun (small inlet or bay)
Eastern Bontoc
2 entries- arog-og noun (stream of water)
- kinnaw noun (stream of water)
Farefare
1 entries- kʋlga class 3/4 noun (stream of water)
Finnish
2 entries- poukama noun (small inlet or bay)
- puro noun (stream of water)
French
3 entries- creek name (language)
- crique noun (small inlet or bay)
- ruisseau noun (stream of water)
Galician
4 entries- abra noun (small inlet or bay)
- anco noun (small inlet or bay)
- angra noun (small inlet or bay)
- barbaña noun (stream of water)
German
4 entries- Bach noun (stream of water)
- Bucht noun (small inlet or bay)
- Krik noun (Native American tribesmember)
- Krik-Indianer noun (Native American tribesmember)
Hungarian
3 entries- csermely noun (stream of water)
- patak noun (stream of water)
- öböl noun (small inlet or bay)
Ilocano
1 entries- waig noun (stream of water)
Irish
1 entries- Créicis name (language)
Italian
4 entries- calanca noun (small inlet or bay)
- fiumicello noun (stream of water)
- piccola insenatura noun (small inlet or bay)
- rivo noun (stream of water)
Japanese
1 entries- 小川 noun (stream of water)
Limburgish
1 entries- krieëk noun (small inlet or bay)
Lubuagan Kalinga
3 entries- ewagit noun (stream of water)
- suɏong noun (stream of water)
- wain noun (stream of water)
Macedonian
4 entries- за́лив noun (small inlet or bay)
- за́ливче noun (small inlet or bay)
- по́ток noun (stream of water)
- ре́кичка noun (stream of water)
Malay
2 entries- anak sungai noun (stream of water)
- serokan noun (small inlet or bay)
Marathi
1 entries- खाडी noun (small inlet or bay)
Northern Ohlone
1 entries- núm̄ei' noun (stream of water)
Norwegian
1 entries- bekk noun (stream of water)
Ojibwe
1 entries- ziibiins noun (stream of water)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- потокъ noun (stream of water)
Ossetian
1 entries- лӕсӕн noun (stream of water)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- جدول noun (stream of water)
- دره noun (stream of water)
- چای noun (stream of water)
Papiamentu
1 entries- roi noun (stream of water)
Pennsylvania German
2 entries- Grick noun (stream of water)
- Krick noun (stream of water)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- Bach (nds) noun (stream of water)
- Rie noun (stream of water)
- Schelsel noun (stream of water)
Portuguese
2 entries- enseada noun (small inlet or bay)
- riacho noun (stream of water)
Russian
4 entries- крикский name (language)
- маскоги name (language)
- бу́хта noun (small inlet or bay)
- бу́хточка noun (small inlet or bay)
Southern Kalinga
1 entries- wail noun (stream of water)
Spanish
3 entries- arroyo noun (stream of water)
- caleta noun (small inlet or bay)
- riachuelo noun (stream of water)
Swedish
2 entries- bäck noun (stream of water)
- vik noun (small inlet or bay)
Tagalog
2 entries- ilat noun (stream of water)
- sapa noun (stream of water)
Turkish
3 entries- Krikçe name (language)
- dere noun (stream of water)
- çay noun (stream of water)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎊𐎁𐎍𐎚 noun (stream of water)
Ukrainian
3 entries- бу́хта noun (small inlet or bay)
- зато́ка noun (small inlet or bay)
- струмо́к noun (stream of water)
Unami
1 entries- Màshku noun (Native American tribesmember)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lạch noun (stream of water)
West-Frisian
1 entries- sleat noun (small inlet or bay)
Yagara
1 entries- pilla noun (stream of water)
Yiddish
2 entries- טײַכל noun (stream of water)
- ריטשקה noun (stream of water)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
She pulled herself out of the water and waddled along the sand at the edge of the creek.
Source: tatoeba (329257)
There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.
Source: tatoeba (799050)
The child's ball fell into the creek.
Source: tatoeba (1229122)
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