Lexicographical Neighbors of Carritches
Literary usage of Carritches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... the huther carritches is bordered at tn,f sez they, as if it wos their hone
famly coche, and not cum hout of 4 <nusc it ten ..."
2. Oor Ain Folk: Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot by James Inglis (1894)
"... looked quite like old friends to us, after our brains had been muddled with
the ' carritches,' and our fingers made to tingle with the tawse, ..."
3. The Bookman (1896)
"... an' say yir carritches. What's the chief end o' man ? ' ' " Could she have
been so accom plished at that age ?" Kate inquired, with interest. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1891)
"... lived tae ninety-twa, an' he was weel read in the guid buik, forbye the
carritches (ie Shorter Catechism) an' the ‘Scots Worthies' an' the ..."
5. Scottish Songs, Ballads and Poems by Hew Ainslie (1855)
"... dolt Wha sticks his carritches at schule, catechism Or her, wha for a woman's
faut, Was bang'd into a lump o' saut, ..."
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