carl
1 Americannoun
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Scot.
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a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.
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a miser; an extremely thrifty person.
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Archaic. a churl.
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Obsolete. a bondman.
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
- carlish adjective
- carlishness noun
Etymology
Origin of carl
before 1000 (in compounds; housecarl ); Middle English; Old English -carl < Old Norse karl man; cognate with Old High German karl; akin to churl
Example Sentences
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“It was like we all got back together and became Beach Boys again,” says Al Jardine, who founded the group in suburban Hawthorne in 1961 with Wilson, Wilson’s brothers Dennis and Carl and the Wilsons’ cousin Mike Love.
From Los Angeles Times
Suddenly, having more or less ignored group-minded efforts like “Holland” and “Carl and the Passions — ‘So Tough,’ ” the world remembered what it loved about the Beach Boys, and that was songs written and produced by Brian Wilson.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2012, Wilson produced a so-so Beach Boys reunion record — minus Dennis, who died in 1983, and Carl, who died in 1998 — but for much of the ’00s he and Jardine toured under Wilson’s name while Love toured as the Beach Boys.
From Los Angeles Times
"It's beginning to sound like 2003," Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister and current co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on X Thursday.
From Barron's
In the early 20th century, German physician Carl von Noorden used oats to treat patients with diabetes, reporting strong results.
From Science Daily
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