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carrycot

carrycot noun: a rectangular, box-shaped bed with handles, in which a baby can be carried while asleep.

Noun

carrycot (plural carrycots)

  1. A rectangular, box-shaped bed with handles, in which a baby can be carried while asleep.
    • The Danish for a carrycot is babylift, Hungarians call jeans farmer pants and the Japanese ofisuredii (‘office lady’) describes a female desk worker.2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020

carrycot meaning in Kannada

carrycot in Kannada

ಸಾಗುಮಂಚ, ಹಗುರವಾದ ಮಂಚ, ಒಯ್ಯಬಲ್ಲ ಮಂಚ, ಮಗುವಿನ ಮಂಚ

Forms of carrycot

pluralcarrycots
alternative formcarry-cot

Origin of carrycot

From carry + cot.

Questions about carrycot

What does carrycot mean?
Carrycot means a rectangular, box-shaped bed with handles, in which a baby can be carried while asleep.
What is carrycot in Kannada?
Carrycot in Kannada is ಸಾಗುಮಂಚ, ಹಗುರವಾದ ಮಂಚ, ಒಯ್ಯಬಲ್ಲ ಮಂಚ. See Carrycot meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is carrycot?
Carrycot is a noun.
What is the plural of carrycot?
The plural of carrycot is carrycots.

Words near carrycot in the dictionary

  1. carryables
  2. carryall
  3. carryalls
  4. carryback
  5. carrybacks
  6. carrycot
  7. carrycots
  8. carryed
  9. carryforward
  10. carryforwards
  11. carryin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carrycot (page history and authors); carrycot (Kannada 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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