carrick

See also: Carrick

English

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carrick (plural carricks)

Alternative spelling of carrack
(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") […]

(nonce word) greatcoat

carrick m (plural carricks)

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

carrick f (genitive singular carree)

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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