carrick
/kˈɛɹɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.15 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A greatcoat.
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A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
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A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
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A former local government district of Cornwall, England, named after the fjord-like Carrick Roads estuary; it was abolished on 31 March 2009.
name
A rocky coastal district now in in South Ayrshire, Scotland and part of the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Scottish Parliament constituency and the eponymous UK Parliament constituency.
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A locality in the Goulburn Mulwaree council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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 […]"
- "A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick") […]"
- "(describing a siren seen in a group of otherwise decrepit old witches dancing) There was ae winsome wench and waulie / That night enlisted in the core, / Lang after ken'd on Carrick shore; / (For mony a beast to dead she shot, / And perish'd mony a bonie boat, ...)"
Etymology
Anglicised version of Irish carraig, Scottish Gaelic carraig or Cornish karrek, all meaning rock. Doublet of Craig.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: carraig, karrek