Meaning of a little of the creature | Babel Free

Definitions

A small drink of alcoholic spirits.

Scotland, US, colloquial, uncountable

Examples

“So I took ‘a leetle of the creater’ – that warmer of the cold, and cooler of the hot, – and it made me feel so good that I concluded it was like the negro's rabbit, ‘good any way.’”

“Nothing; only it is poor sport to go on a dub without a little of the critter.”

“And when he met her, he told her what he came about, and said that he never would mind what the women prayed for, but it was greatly against his health to be obliged to drink his wine and whiskey raw, and he'd a longing desire for a little of the creature neatly mixed up with lemon and sugar, and water [...].”

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