variants or carlin
chiefly Scottish
as in hag
a mean or ugly old woman there's no appeasing the auld carline who lives at the far end of the loch

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Recent Examples of carline Out of the roughly 500 carlines listed in the 2025 NHTSA dataset, each had at minimum 20% of their components imported from outside the U.S. and Canada. Need a break? Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
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hag
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  • But when the island’s prince is kidnapped, an unlikely alliance of an ogre, hag, wizard and fey will have only days to sneak around London to save him.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
  • On the flipside is the hag: unattractive, withered and unpleasant.
    Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025

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“Carline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carline. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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