Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A living creature.
- n. Informal A domestic animal, especially a cow, horse, or mule.
- n. Informal A person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vulgar corruption of creature.
Wiktionary
- n. A creature
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. U. S., western dialect Any animal.
- n. U. S., western dialect A domestic animal or a non-predatory wild animal; -- contrasted with
varmint , also dialectal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)
Etymologies
- First attested 1815, dialectal pronunciation of creature. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of creature. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And if your critter is only doing a conference call? nt djemi”
“Did you read the health care bill?” - with handy primer. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“If a complex tribolite gets killed by a natural disaster, does that mean the critter is less fit?”
“Almost always, when a critter is struck there and the bullet does its job, the beast goes down right away or within a few steps.”
“Afte rabbit season is over all ny hunting buddy's and their family's and anybody else that wants to come get together at my shop and I cook what I call a critter stew.”
“Of course I have a Savage combo gun in .22/.410 so I can choose a .22 on the ground or the .410 if the critter is in a tree.”
“I also believe that whether you call it Skookum, Bigfoot or Swamp Ape that critter is Smart and knows his habitat better than we know the insides of our vehicles.”
“This Dobson critter is a religious determinist, specifically, a variant of a Calvinist predestinarian (John Calvin, 16th Century Protestant theologian; a Protestant when being a Protestant could get you burned at the stake).”
“For the small game depending on what the critter is you might want to look into something a little smaller.”
“Knowing how hardy the critter is to knockdown is where you match the cartridge and bullet weight in accordance with the terrain, distance and environment (crosswind etc) conditions for the best performance. 180 on deer is ridicules!!”
“My experience haws been that the removal of morale has turned every combat into “they fight until killed”, ESPECIALLY with unintelligent animals/monsters – DMs sometimes will say “well, those soldiers are smart, maybe they run off” but any critter is 100% dedicated to killing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘critter’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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bepetersen's list
Words that I think should be banned from the English language
spittle, supper, crusty, moist, engorged, crotch, sinew, salve, suckle, mauve, damp, squat and 34 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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Words
Words I like.
jejune, eunoia, swallow, spelunk, milquetoast, echolalia, trumble, toothsome, synecdoche, taciturn, kerfuffle, aleatoric and 98 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
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Wolfy's Words
wolfy, fauna, evergreen, fuzzy, smorgasborg, architecture, bedlam, endow, exceptional, extrinsic, free, excalibur and 70 more...
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Horrid Words
Icky words
lactate, lukewarm, vestige, fungus, gondola, critter, vacuole, guacamole, scab, juice, ghost, vespa and 5 more...
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Satan's Gramophone
dank, blouse, poetess, squab, moist, sphincter, roughage, purse, blab, sepulchral, flesh, thigh and 58 more...
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annabethblue's Words
phantasmagorical, cellar, selah, hallelujah, february, ninja, entschuldigung, zephyr, squinny, burrow, melanistic, squirrel and 6 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for critter.
Telofy
Dec 17, 2009