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- noun
Eye dialect spelling ofcreature .
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Examples
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"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
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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
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‘Hold your noise — do — you naughty creetur!’ said
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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
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‘Don’t trouble Mr. Pickwick about an old creetur like me.
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‘Stop there by himself, poor creetur!’ exclaimed the elder
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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.
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‘Oh! You perwerse creetur!’ exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies.
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‘Her father was a blessed creetur, Quilp, and worthy twenty thousand of some people,’ said Mrs Jiniwin; ‘twenty hundred million thousand.’
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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.
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