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critter|ˈkrɪtə(r)|
Also 9 crittur.
Widespread dial. and jocular var. creature; spec. an ox or cow; a horse; a chicken; a person (usu. disparaging).
1815D. Humphreys Yankey in Eng. 41 Cooking for the crew, and taking care of the dum critturs. 1827A. Sherwood Gaz. Georgia 139 Beast, or crittur, for horse. 1834S. Smith Sel. Lett. Downing 86 Bears and wolves and sich kind of critters. 1834C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 19 There he [sc. Capt. Finny] was, sure enough: the crittur had just come out of his bush-pasture. Ibid. 31 There was that crittur Mr. Van Buren. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xiv. 73 One of your poor pryin', inquisitive critturs, what's always fancyin' themselves cheated. Ibid. xxvii. 166, I saw the critter's great pecker steadily down in his plate. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. xxvii. (1865) 249 The upper story..occupied by..the family, and the rooms below by the animals, or as a Yankee would call them, the critters. 1855D. G. Rossetti Let. 11 May (1897) 126 That magnanimous crittur seems to have restored him his confidence. 1856Geo. Eliot Let. 6 June (1954) II. 253 A charming little zoological curate here, who..is most good-natured in lending and giving apparatus and ‘critturs’ of all sorts. 1862G. du Maurier Let. Apr. (1951) 127 My talk is rather an institution among critters who are like to each other. 1923‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza vi. 65 She..can sling a pack or rope a critter better than lots of men that draw wages for doing it. 1926E. M. Roberts Time of Man (1963) 321 ‘You came a-horseback?’ Jasper said. He was moved almost beyond speech by this expression of loyalty. ‘A-horseback I reckon.’ ‘Yes, we rode our critters.’ 1942M. Campbell Cloud-Walking 32 He dozed off till Sary's chickens crowed for morning... Then he stirred to light a fire in the cook room and go out to the lot to feed the critters about the place. 1956‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump 143 I'd have said it wasn't possible. I mean, to tame a critter like that. |