carn

In course of time, however, the original meaning was lost or disregarded, and the term carn-lleidyr was applied to any particularly dishonest person.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

But I must here tell you that the term carn may be applied to any who is particularly bad or disagreeable in any respect, and now I remember, has been applied for centuries both in prose and poetry.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

The Pope of Rome I shall in future term carn-lleidyr y byd, or the arch thief of the world.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Lewis Glyn Cothi, a poet, who lived more than three hundred years ago, uses the word carn in the sense of arrant or exceedingly bad, for in his abusive ode to the town of Chester, he says that the women of London itself were never more carn strumpets than those of Chester, by which he means that there were never more arrant harlots in the world than those of the cheese capital.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Whenever I go to Chester, and a dressed-up madam jostles against me, I shall call her carn-butein.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

"Huh," said Brad, "I reckun he 'cided to cum an' git you to cum out an 'see his wife, now dat he done rin up a bill wid ole doc' Poleen, an 'carn't git him to cum no mo'."

Shawn of Skarrow James Tandy Ellis 1905

Everybody Scream is about Punktown's otherworldly carnival, a word rooted in the Latin cognate "carn -" or "flesh."

Examiner California Headlines 2010

a job these six months, lookin 'fer work every dye an' carn't find it. '

The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"'No,' he said, after cogitating for a minute, 'carn't say I do; I never can remember much about Smythe.

Novel Notes 1893

I think it would be the greatest carn-evil of 2012.

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