carrick

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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

Translations

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

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

carrick f (genitive singular carree)

  1. rock

Derived terms

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.