Carl (plural Carls)
A male given name from Germanic languages, equivalent to Charles.
Shortening.
Carl (plural Carls)
(informal) A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.
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carl (plural carls)
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
(Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.
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.
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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
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
