carlin

Variant of carline

carline definition

car·line or carlin car′·lin (kär′lin, ker′-)

noun

  1. a woman, esp. an old woman
  2. a hag; witch

Etymology: ON kerling, wife, old woman < karl, a man + fem. suffix

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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