carrick
See also: Carrick
English edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
carrick (plural carricks)
- Alternative spelling of carrack
- (nonce word) A greatcoat.
- 1959, Dmitri Nabokov (translator), Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading:
- […] here there was little hairy Pushkin in a fur carrick, and ratlike Gogol in a flamboyant waistcoat, and old little Tolstoy with his fat nose […]
- c. 1948, Vladimir Nabokov, "Lecture on The Metamorphosis" (reprinted in Lectures on Literature, 1980)
- A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick") […]
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(nonce word) greatcoat
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carrick m (plural carricks)
- heavy overcoat
Further reading edit
- “carrick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare modern Irish carraig).
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carrick f (genitive singular carree)
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Mutation edit
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| carrick | charrick | garrick |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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carrick
- rock
- Synonym: ruck
- OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.
- “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”
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References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 2