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  • noun Eye dialect spelling of creature.

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Examples

  • "creetur" on a broomstick, -- she was too sensible for that; but you will not wonder that, as she heard the footsteps come nearer and nearer, her heart almost stopped beating from fright.

    Little Grandmother Sophie May 1869

  • April 18, 2008 at 6:30 pm teh kittehs does wut teh kittehs will do kittehs r teh obligate carnivores we hoomans can unnerstand or not not unnerstand = much sad, angry, and pleh unnerstand = knowing teh whole kitteh wen mai kitteh finds teh mousie inside i am happy happy joi joi wen mai kitteh finds teh bird/sqrl/lizrd/other kyoot creetur outsaid i am sad…

    i r hear for the potluck! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • ‘Hold your noise — do — you naughty creetur!’ said

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • I looked out into the street; but nothin could I see, and nothin was I aware of, until I turned round quick, because some creetur run between my legs into the passage.

    A House to Let 2007

  • ‘Don’t trouble Mr. Pickwick about an old creetur like me.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • ‘Stop there by himself, poor creetur!’ exclaimed the elder

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • Mind what I say — he has given his friends the slip, and persuaded this delicate young creetur all along of her fondness for him to be his guide and travelling companion — where to, he knows no more than the man in the moon.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • ‘Oh! You perwerse creetur!’ exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • ‘Her father was a blessed creetur, Quilp, and worthy twenty thousand of some people,’ said Mrs Jiniwin; ‘twenty hundred million thousand.’

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • The young lady was not at all softened by these allurements, for she at once expressed her opinion, that Mr. Bob Sawyer was an ‘odous creetur;’ and, on his becoming rather more pressing in his attentions, imprinted her fair fingers upon his face, and bounced out of the room with many expressions of aversion and contempt.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

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