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carritches

carritches noun: a set of questions to determine one's knowledge. Also the plural of carritch.

Noun

carritches

  1. (Scotland) A set of questions to determine one's knowledge.
    • So the garçon was ca'd in an' put through his carritches, an' the outcome o' the conference was that an assortment o' bottles, containin' divers kinds o' lickers, soon made their appearance upo' the table.1986, William Donaldson, Popular literature in Victorian Scotland, page 52

Also used as

carritches is also the plural of carritch.

Questions about carritches

What does carritches mean?
Carritches means a set of questions to determine one's knowledge.
What part of speech is carritches?
Carritches is a noun.

Words near carritches in the dictionary

  1. Carrion's disease
  2. carrions
  3. Carris
  4. Carrises
  5. carritch
  6. carritches
  7. Carritt
  8. Carriveau
  9. Carriveaus
  10. carriwitchet
  11. carriwitchets

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