there's no appeasing the auld carline who lives at the far end of the loch
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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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Etymology
northern Middle English kerling & early Scots kerling, karlyng, karlyn "old woman," borrowed from Old Norse kerling, from karl "man, commoner" + -ing, feminine noun suffix — more at churl
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