carritch

[ kahr-ich ]

nounScot.
  1. a catechism.

Origin of carritch

1
1755–65; back formation from carritches (taken as plural), Scots variant of catechise (now dial.) <French catéchèse ≪ Greek katḗchēsiscatechesis; for t>rr,cf. porridge

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