Etymology

caird

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Today it means: A travelling tinker or a tramp. Full definition →

Irish ceard
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  1. Irish · borrowed fromceard“a tinker”
  2. English todaycaird

From Irish ceard (“a tinker”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.