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- n. Whiskey. The term is analogous to uisge beatha (the water of life). 'A drop of the craythur' is a popular if old expression.
Examples
“He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur.”
“Old Mrs. Flaherty declared, amid her giggles, that "the two eyes av the craythur fairly give her a turn," and when asked to explain she pointed to the gongs at the top of the apparatus.”
“Amongst these few, I am sorry to say, Corporal Macan distinguished himself, falling a victim to his "ould complaint," by coming aboard on the second day after our arrival in a state of glorious intoxication, despite his solemn promise to Dr Nettleby, through whom the commander had given him permission to land, that he "wouldn't touch a dhrop ov the craythur, not if Ould Nick axed him.”
“I tould yez, sor, I wouldn't touch a dhrop ov the craythur, maynin 'whisky, sure," he said, with a miserable attempt at a grin; for he felt very much humiliated at losing his stripes, Macan sober being quite a different man to Macan drunk.”
“Even Mrs. Rooney, who thought that her boy was "the sweetest craythur the cun shines on," preferred to hear him called "Handy Andy" rather than”
“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.”
“Uncle Charles, a dhrop of the craythur a wee dhrop of the craythur?”
“Sure she will," cried the Irish woman; "come in here, you poor, spiritless craythur.”
“An 'Mickie's eyes are bright -- the craythur there”
“Do you see that poor craythur wid the lookin 'glass?”
Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant
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sionnach Any strong drink, but the default is likely to be whiskey or poteen. Dec 11, 2008
bilby Whiskey only or any strong drink? Dec 11, 2008
sionnach "craythur" is a kind of amber word, in that it invariably appears in the phrase "a drop of the craythur". Dec 11, 2008
bilby
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street,
A gentleman Irish mighty odd;
He had a brogue both rich and sweet,
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way,
With a love of the whiskey he was born,
And to help him on with his work each day,
He'd a drop of the craythur every morn.
Chorus:
Whack fol the dah O, dance to your partner,
Welt the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you,
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
- traditional, 'Finnegan's Wake'. Dec 11, 2008