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Caried vs Cariad - What's the difference?

caried | cariad |

As a verb caried

is , (cary).

As a noun cariad is

(welsh|borrowed) darling.

caried

English

Verb

(head)
  • , (cary)

    • Cary

    English

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun)
  • A surname, a less common spelling of Carey.
  • (male) transferred from the surnames.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
  • The name of several towns in the United States:
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    • Quotations

    * 1849 Charlotte Brontë: Shirley : Chapter XXV: *: "My sister gave it to me - my only sister, Cary . Would that your aunt Caroline had lived to see her niece!" * 1999 Ian Rankin: Dead Souls ISBN 0312974205 page 246: *: "You'll laugh when I tell you my name. All I can say is, nobody consulted me ." *: "Why, what's your name?" Laughing now as he stepped past her into the hall. *: "Cary ," he told her. "After the actor. Only I've never managed to be quite so suave."

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    * * English surnames English diminutives of female given names

    cariad

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Welsh, borrowed) Darling.
  • * 1869 John Saunders, "Hirell"
    • Eh, dear, Mr. Robert, sir, the master's waiting to hear you ask after your little cariad (sweetheart), Miss Hirell.
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1905 , date=September 29, 1905 , author=T. H. Thomas , title=A Fisher-Story and Other Notes from South Wales , journal=Folklore , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=YEcKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA338, page=338
    • , passage="Wilt thou be my cariad ?" said she.}}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , year=1999 , date=June 16, 1999 , author=Martin Phillips , title=Re: "Wales is a gay nation" , newsgroup=alt.gossip.celebrities , id=7k99jo$2og$1@uranium.btinternet.com citation , passage=As for the women, I believe Catherine Zeta-Jones might not be equine, and is, in fact, quite representational of Welsh women. I'll stick to my cariads , thank you very much. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title = Re: A Final Fairwell , author = Taffy3Rock , date = April 11, 2000 , year = 2000 , newsgroup = alt.tv.3rd-rock , id = 20000411122402.16739.00000693@nso-fo.aol.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.3rd-rock/msg/09d71670c2c32838 , passage = I'd say collegeboy is a high contender, Warren, cariad . }}
  • * 2007 , Barbara Williams Cook, "Led by Faith"
    • And all because we are together, my little cariad .
  • * 2011 , Mary MacLauren, The Four Elizabeths (ISBN: 978-1-4568-5372-3), page 46:
    • [...] as he suckled at her breast beneath the Welsh shawl. Tired but happier, Susannah Holmes remembered Mary's native logic when her name had been called. "Oh well, cariads . One hell is as good as another."

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