jaunty car
- noun
- Archaic
:
carroza
- The museum displays a restored jaunty car from the late nineteenth century.
Examples
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The tourists enjoyed a ride in a jaunty car through the Irish countryside.
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In old photographs, you can see families traveling together by jaunty car.
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The jaunty car rolled down the street.
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I saw a jaunty car at the festival.
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The tourists enjoyed a ride in a jaunty car through the Irish countryside.
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The museum displays a restored jaunty car from the late nineteenth century.
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In old photographs, you can see families traveling together by jaunty car.
Synonyms
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9.9
An open two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse originally used in Ireland to carry people
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9.9
A light open carriage with two wheels that two horses pull, used in the past for personal travel
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3.7
A small vehicle with two or four wheels pulled by a pony with seats for two people
A small two-wheeled cart with two seats pulled by a pony
How Open
Surface Forms
Morphology
jaunty + car
The adjective 'jaunty' (cheerful) plus 'car' (vehicle) yields a general sense of a 'cheerful vehicle', so there is some compositional clue. However, the specific historical meaning — an open two-wheeled horse‑drawn cart (jaunting car) — is a dialectal/historical sense not predictable from the modern senses of the constituents, so learners who know the words would likely not arrive at the precise meaning without exposure.
Etymology
Jaunty car comes from old short pleasure rides called 'jaunts' in Ireland, where people rode in a light, open two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with seats facing out. So the word jaunty here means lively and the car was the open cart used for short, cheerful trips.