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English
Etymology
First attested 1815, from a dialectal pronunciation of creature.
Pronunciation
Noun
critter (plural critters)
- (usually endearing, US, Australia) A creature, an animal.
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Translations
a creature
- Czech: tvor (cs) m, stvoření (cs) n
- Finnish: luontokappale (fi)
- French: bébête (fr) f, bestiole (fr) f
- German: Kreatur (de) f, Tier (de) n
- Italian: bestiola (it) f, animaletto m
- Polish: futrzak m, stworzonko n
- Portuguese: criatura (pt) f
- Romanian: creatură (ro) f, vietate (ro) f
- Russian: зверюшка (ru) f (zverjuška), зверушка (ru) f (zveruška), зверёк (ru) m (zverjók)
- Spanish: criatura (es) f, bichito m, críter m (Peru)
- Swedish: kreatur (sv) n
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