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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
carriwitchet. canescent [kuh-ness-unt] hoary, grayish or dull white, like the hairs
on the leaves of plants. Although this looks like it should be related to canine, it's
from a Latin word meaning 'to grow hoary.' Perhaps it could be used to describe ...
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Dr Johnson's Reliquary of Rediscovered Words
Carriwitchet. (Ka-ree-l'i-chet) n. A pun. A word first used by Tristram Foulds in The
Punning Plan, a tiresome four— act play in which every sentence spoken
contained at least one pun. In the final act, Gertrude, commenting upon the
handbag ...
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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ...
'A prey forcarrion kites.' S alt. Carrion-crow (kar'ri-on-kro), n. The common crow (
Corcmi corona): so called because it sometimes feeds on carrion. Carritch,
Carritches (kar'rich, kar'rich-ez), n. Catechism. [Scotch] Carriwitchet (kar'i-wich-et)
, 11.
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale, 1885
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Scotch] carriwitchet (kar'i-wich-et), n. [Also spelled carrawitchet, carawilchet,
carwhlchet, prob., like carritch, a humorous perversion of catechism, q. v.] An
absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a an; a piece of jocularity or
facetiousness.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1900
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
>tians, hath carried up carriwitchet (kar'i-wich-et), re. [Also spelled carrot (kar'ot),
v. t. [< carrot, «., the oil of carrawitchet, carawitchet, carwhichet, prob., like carrot
being one of the preparations used for carritch, a humorous perversion of ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English ...
Some piece of jocularity or facetiousnesa ; a pun or the like ' Fun, pun,
conundrum, carriwitchet. ' Garriek. According to Fitzedward Hall, 'this term, for '
absurd question,' is still heard now and then." Carrol, n. See Carol, in arch.
Carrole (kar'rdl) ...
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale, 1882
carriwitchet (kar'i-wich-et), n. [Also spelled carrawitchet, carawitchet, carwhichet,
prob., like carritch, a humorous perversion of catechism, q. v.] An absurd question
; a quibble ; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or face- tiousness.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
carriwitchet (kar'i-wich-et), n. [Also spelled carrawitchet, carawitchet, carwhichet,
prob., like carritch, a humorous perversion of catechism, q. v.] An absurd question
; a quibble ; a conundrum ; a pun ; a piece of jocularity or f ace- tiousness.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Fun, pun, conundrum, carriwitchet. Oarrick, Correspondence, etc., II. 296. carro (
kar'o), n. [It., prop, a cart-load : see earl.] A wine measure of Lombardy and Nice,
equal to 130 United States (wine) gallons, 108 imperial gallons, or 492.5 liters.
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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His private correspondence with the most celebrated persons ...
... rockets, air-balloons, mines, serpents, and Catherine-wheels, and can think of
nothing and wish for nothing but laugh, gig, humour, fun, pun, conundrum,
carriwitchet, and Catherine Clive! I am ever, my Pivy's most constant and loving,
&c.
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A “carriwitchet” the OED characterizes as “a hoaxing question or conundrum” and was, says Jesse Sheidlower, the OED's editor at large, ... «Salon, Jan 13»
