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carriwitchet

carriwitchet noun: an absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness.

Noun

carriwitchet (plural carriwitchets)

  1. (rare) An absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness.

carriwitchet meaning in Tamil

carriwitchet in Tamil

புதிர் வினா

Forms of carriwitchet

pluralcarriwitchets
alternative formcarwhichet
alternative formcarwitchet

Origin of carriwitchet

Unknown. Sayers (2014) suggests a derivation from Irish ceartaithe (“corrected, set straight”, old spelling ceartuighthe), the past participle of ceartaigh. The OED references Fitzedward Hall's tentative query in Modern English (1873) of French colifichet (“trinket, bauble”), and F. C. Birkbeck Terry more fancifully proposes a corruption of "quaerite, which is it?" Compare also Scottish English carritch, a corruption of catechism.

Questions about carriwitchet

What does carriwitchet mean?
Carriwitchet means an absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness.
What is carriwitchet in Tamil?
Carriwitchet in Tamil is புதிர் வினா. See Carriwitchet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is carriwitchet?
Carriwitchet is a noun.
What is the plural of carriwitchet?
The plural of carriwitchet is carriwitchets.

Words near carriwitchet in the dictionary

  1. carritch
  2. carritches
  3. Carritt
  4. Carriveau
  5. Carriveaus
  6. carriwitchet
  7. carriwitchets
  8. Carrizal
  9. Carrizals
  10. Carrizo
  11. Carrizo Springs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carriwitchet (page history and authors); carriwitchet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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