cratur
Britishnoun
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whisky or whiskey
a drop of the cratur
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a person
Etymology
Origin of cratur
from creature
Example Sentences
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"Ah, sure ma'am," said an Irish sailor,—"it's as fine an ilivation, barrin' a few thousand feet of height, as that same smokin', rumblin' ould cratur, an' a dale betther behaved."
From Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood
Get us a drop o' tay and give this poor misguided cratur somethin' to eat.
From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Rutherford Mayne
An’ I had pity on the cratur, for her face was the size o’ a muckle pot, an’ lek nothin’ under the sun.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
But surely I hae some excuse: is she no a noble cratur?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by John Mackay Wilson
That's a puir supper for the stamach o' an unweel cratur; an' I've a' my doots if she's no at this moment confined to her strae bed.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
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