Etymology
Origin of craythur
from Irish Gaelic Créatur creature
Example Sentences
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Sure, and it's glad I am, that the ould craythur is fairly off—for divil a bit of comfort did she give the laste of us with her time-saving orderly ways.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
O, he's a scut iv a chap that's not worth your axin' for,—he's not worth your honor's notice,—a braggin' poor craythur.
From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter
"Poor craythur, she doesn't know what she is saying."
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various
"He has brought a bag full o' stones to throw a top o' the tithes to keep them down—O wisha! wisha! poor craythur!"
From International Short Stories English by Various
"It amuses the craythur to pritind he's doing things," he would say, as he watched Dick delving in the earth to make a little oven—Island-fashion—for the cooking of fish or what-not.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
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