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cratur

noun Irish and Scot
  1. the cratur whisky or whiskeya drop of the cratur
  2. a person
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Word Origin

from creature
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Examples from the Web for cratur

Historical Examples

  • (aside to her son) Choking the cratur is with the words he can't get out.

    Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)

    Maria Edgeworth

  • Ye dinna tell me he gies ye noucht to mainteen the cratur upo?

    Salted With Fire

    George MacDonald

  • It'll be a puir holiday for the cratur, but let him jist tak' it.

    Erchie

    (AKA Hugh Foulis) Neil Munro

  • Weel, I never thought the cratur wad hae had the handicraft to do the like!'

  • Is't no' a sin an' a shame for a cratur like that to work in a place like this?

    The Guinea Stamp

    Annie S. Swan