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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Nay; I've no grand words at my tongue's end, Mr. Moore, but I feel that it wad be a low principle for a reasonable man to starve to death like a dumb cratur.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
“I’ve had a dale to do with sheep, and lambs, too, in my younger days, and many’s the little cosset I’ve brought up by hand, when the poor cratur would otherwise have died.”
From Minnie's Pet Lamb by Madeline Leslie
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
What did the cratur mean when he spoke aboot 'mixed metaphors'?
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
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
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