creepy-crawly vs animate being

creepy-crawly and animate being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
creepy-crawly	Yes	Yes	No	No
animate being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animate being is a hypernym of creepy-crawly; that is, animate being is a word with a broader meaning than creepy-crawly:

creepy-crawly: an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)
animate being: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of creepy-crawly include animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna.

creepy-crawly (noun)	animate being (noun)
an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

creepy-crawly (adjective)	animate being (adjective)
causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin