carriwitchet

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  1. An absurd question; a quibble; a conundrum; a pun; a piece of jocularity or facetiousness. [Obsolete or rare.] A bare clinch will serve the turn; a carwichet, a quarter-quibble, or a pun. Dryden, The Wild Gallant, i. 1. He has all sorts of echoes, rebuses, chronograms, etc., besides carwhichets, clenches, and quibbles. Butler. Sir John had always his budget full of punns, conundrums, and carrawitchets. Arbuthnot. Fun, pun, conundrum, carriwitchet. Garrick, Correspondence, etc., II. 296.

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  1. Also spelled carrawitchet, carawitchet, carwhichet, prob., like carritch, a humorous perversion of catechism, q. v.
 

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