carrick

See also: Carrick

English

Noun

carrick (plural carricks)

  1. Alternative spelling of carrack
  2. (nonce word) A greatcoat.
    • 1959, 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 […]
    • 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") […]

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare modern Irish carraig).

Noun

carrick f (genitive singular carree)

  1. rock

Derived terms

Mutation
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carrickcharrickgarrick
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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