/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Creature (The)
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Whisky or other spirits. A contracted form of “Creature-comfort.”
“When he chanced to have taken an overdose of the creature.”—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xliv.
A drop of the creature. A little whisky. The Irish call it “a drop of the crater.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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