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Carle vs Parle - What's the difference?

carle | parle |

As a noun carle

is (chiefly|scotland) peasant; fellow.

As a verb parle is

.

As an adjective parle is

colloquial.

carle

English

Alternative forms

* carl

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) peasant; fellow
  • * {{quote-book, year=1820, author=Lord Byron, title=The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4, chapter=Marino Faliero, edition= citation
    • , passage=Had he instead of on the Doge's throne Stamped the same brand upon a peasant's stool, His blood had gilt the threshold; for the carle Had stabbed him on the instant. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1885, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Daily Thoughts, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye may fancy I'm talking like a sour, disappointed auld carle . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=William Morris, title=The Story of the Glittering Plain, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Spake the sad and sorry carle : "We seek the Land where the days are many: so many that he who hath forgotten how to laugh, may learn the craft again, and forget the days of Sorrow." }}

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    parle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Parley.
  • (obsolete) A nasty encounter.

    • Quotations

    * ''"So frowned he once, when in an angry parle * He smote the angry Polacks on the ice – Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 61–62.

    Verb

  • To talk; to converse; to parley.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Milton
    • Finding himself too weak, began to parle .

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