carrick

See also: Carrick

English

Etymology

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Noun

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") […]

Derived terms

• carrick bend

Translations

(nonce word) greatcoat

• Russian: please add this translation if you can

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

carrick m (plural carricks)

1. heavy overcoat

Further reading

• “carrick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

carrick f (genitive singular carree)

1. rock

Derived terms

• bun-charrick

Mutation

Mutation of carrick

radical	lenition	eclipsis
carrick	charrick	garrick

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.