carrots
Pluralcarrots
- 1Plural of carrot.
Fresh carrots add color and sweetness to the salad.
Farmers harvested rows of carrots before the first frost.
Note
A regular -s plural, but not every carrot needs it. The vegetable is also a mass noun, so a recipe can call for grated carrot where a shopping list asks for carrots. The plural counts whole roots, and the singular measures the stuff. The incentive sense takes the plural too, for a set of rewards on offer. The same spelling, aimed at one person, is the red-haired nickname.
- 2A derogatory nickname for a person with red hair.
Like "Ginger" or "Red": a label pinned on someone purely for the color of their hair.
The lads down the pub never let Carrots forget his fiery hair.
Oi, Carrots, mind where you're standing!
Similarginger
Note
A British taunt more than a description: the plural form fixed onto a single person, usually as a capitalized nickname or a shout (Oi, Carrots!). Because it is derogatory slang, it belongs only in banter between people who already tease each other. Aimed at a stranger, it is an insult about appearance. The singular carrot can carry the same slang meaning, but the plural is the form that sticks as a name.
carrots is a form of carrot
carrot, noun: A vegetable grown for its nutritious, juicy, sweet root, usually orange, of the species Daucus carota. Full entry
- Forms
- carrotcarrots plural
- Spelling
- carrot → carrots: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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