Carlot
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Isn't this where you go to buy a new automobile?
Plus:
From answers.com:
a peasant, in the pejorative sense
"And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
That the old carlot once was master of."
-Shakespeare, As You Like It
So perhaps it's not quite better than rube, hick, etc. Just a fancier way of belittling the bumpkins.
Plus:
From answers.com:
a peasant, in the pejorative sense
"And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
That the old carlot once was master of."
-Shakespeare, As You Like It
So perhaps it's not quite better than rube, hick, etc. Just a fancier way of belittling the bumpkins.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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From OneLook Dictionary:
Would a churlish prostitute be a carlot harlot?
Would a boorish peasant whose contract of indentured servitude was sold to another person be considered a used carlot?Quick definitions (carlot)
(n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.
(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)
Would a churlish prostitute be a carlot harlot?
Regards//Larry
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