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carrick

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English

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Etymology

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Noun

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carrick (plural carricks)

  1. Alternative spelling of carrack
  2. (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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French

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Etymology

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The original sense was "carriage," itself adapted from English curricle.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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carrick m (plural carricks)

  1. heavy overcoat

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish carrac (rock, large stone) (compare modern Irish carraig), from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (hard).

Noun

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carrick f (genitive singular carree)

  1. rock

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Mutation

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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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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish carraig.

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Noun

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carrick

  1. 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

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  • 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