creaturとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

creatur (複数形 creaturs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of creature.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Morning of the Trial”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 118:

     Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.

   • 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 123:

     But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?

   • 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter VIII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 101:

     I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while.