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CARL
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Carl (plural Carls)
A male given name from Germanic languages, equivalent to Charles.
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
Carl (plural Carls)
(informal) A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.
Anagrams
• ACLR, CRLA
Etymology 1
Noun
carl (plural carls)
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
(Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.
Etymology 2
Verb
carl (third-person singular simple present carls, present participle carling, simple past and past participle carled)
(obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
Anagrams
• ACLR, CRLA
Source: Wiktionary
Carl, n. Etym: [Icel, karl a male, a man; akin to AS. ceorl, OHG. charal, G. kerl fellow. See Churl.] [Written also carle.]
1. A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. Chaucer.
2. Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.
3. pl.
Definition: A kind of food. See citation, below. Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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