carlin

plural carlins

1. alternativeAlternative form of carline (“old woman”).

   He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]

   1785 (date written), Robert Burns, “Halloween”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 189

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   The bedrid carlins, too, and orphan brats, / Come all on me, through his petitioning; […]

   1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act I

   Synonyms: hag, crone

2. alternativeAlternative form of carling.

plural Carlins

1. countableA surname.

   Carlin also got arrested at one of comedian Lenny Bruce’s obscenity busts. By the late 1960s, Carlin changed his image from button-downed to T-shirt and jeans.

   2020 July 24, Dennis Simanaitis, “CELEBRATING GEORGE CARLIN”, in Simanaitis Says, archived from the original on 16 May 2022

2. countableuncountableA small city in Elko County, Nevada, United States, named after William Carlin.