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• a variation of carline.

carlin

British  

/ ˈkɑːlɪn /

noun

1. another name for pug 1

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Etymology

Origin of carlin

C18: named after a French actor who played Harlequin, because of the resemblance of the dog's face to the black mask of the Harlequin

Example Sentences

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carlin

Come, carlin, sing now!" cried the seaman: "here's my groat.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

God bless your Honours! can ye see't— The kind, auld cantie carlin greet, An' no get warmly to your feet, An' gar them hear it, An' tell them wi'a patriot-heat Ye winna bear it?

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

The hideous carlin and her three giant sons is also a common form in Celtic.

From Celtic Fairy Tales by Jacobs, Joseph

That auld capricious carlin, Nature, To mak amends for scrimpit stature, She’s turn’d you aff, a human creature On her first plan; And in her freaks, on every feature She’s wrote, the Man.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

It fell about the Martinmass, When nights are lang and mirk, The carlin wife’s three sons came hame, And their hats were o’ the birk.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank