carlin

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪn

carlin (plural carlins)

1. Alternative form of carline (“old woman”).

   Synonyms: hag, crone

   • 1785 (date written), Robert Burns, “Halloween”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 189:

     He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]

   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act I:

     The bedrid carlins, too, and orphan brats, / Come all on me, through his petitioning; […]

2. Alternative form of carling.

• -carnil, crinal

Probably from Carlin, nickname of Italian actor Carlo Bestinazzi (1713-1783) whose Harlequin mask was humorously compared to the dog's nose.

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.lɛ̃/

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carlin m (plural carlins)

1. pug (dog)

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

• larcin