A McCreachery Card Theory

[cyseymour]

Let me make some Etymological observations regarding the word "Creachy"

There were two disparate definitions:

To age
To fall from grace

In my view, the verb is "to creach" originally meant "to fall from grace" and later became adapted to mean "to age", as in, "to age is to fall from the grace of God."

Hence the Deacon White joke of him being the "Dear Son of God", because he had aged and now seemed better fit to become a manager, he had fallen from the grace of God.

Nowadays, the term creachie means creeky, as in "old and creeky". Back then, spellings were far less standard, and there was lots of interchangability between ch/k and ph/f, etc.