Craags; great fat hands; big handfuls. (Morris: South Mon.)
Crab; a cute precocious little child is often called an _old crab_. 'Crabjaw' has the same meaning.
Cracklins; the browned crispy little flakes that remain after _rendering_ or melting lard and pouring it off. (Simmons: Armagh.)
Crahauns or Kirraghauns; very small potatoes not used by the family: given to pigs. (Munster.) Irish _creathán_.
Crans (always in pl.); little tricks or dodges. (Limk).
Crapper; a half glass of whiskey. (Moran: Carlow.)
Craw-sick; ill in the morning after a drunken bout.
Crawtha; sorry, mortified, pained. (Limerick.) Irish _cráidhte_ [crawtha], same meaning.
Crawthumper; a person ostentatiously devotional.
Creel; a strong square wicker frame, used by itself for holding turf, &c., or put on asses' backs (in pairs), or put on carts for carrying turf or for taking calves, _bonnives_, &c., to market. Irish _criol_. (All through Ireland.) { 242}
Creepy; a small stool, a stool. (Chiefly in Ulster.)
Crith; hump on the back. Irish _cruit_, same sound and meaning. From this comes _critthera_ and _crittheen_, both meaning a hunchback.
Cro, or cru: a house for cows. (Kerry.) Irish _cro_, a pen, a fold, a shed for any kind of animals.
Croaked; I am afraid poor Nancy is croaked, i.e. doomed to death. The raven croaks over the house when one of the family is about to die. (MacCall: Wexford.)
Croft; a water bottle, usually for a bedroom at night. You never hear _carafe_ in Ireland: it is always _croft_.
Crumel´ly. (Limerick.) More correctly _curr amílly_. (Donegal.) An herb found in grassy fields with a sweet root that children dig up and eat. Irish 'honey-root.'
Cronaun, croonaun; a low humming air or song, any continuous humming sound: 'the old woman was cronauning in the corner.'
Cronebane, cronebaun; a bad halfpenny, a worthless copper coin. From Cronebane in Co. Wicklow, where copper mines were worked.
Croobeen or crubeen; a pig's foot. Pigs' croobeens boiled are a grand and favourite viand among us--all through Ireland. Irish _crúb_ [croob], a foot, with the diminutive.
Croost; to throw stones or clods from the hand:--'Those boys are always _croosting_ stones at my hens.' Irish _crústa_ [croostha], a missile, a clod.