One Lewis Glyn Cothi, a poet, who lived more than three hundred years ago, uses the word carn in the sense of arrant or exceedingly bad, for in his abusive ode to the town of Chester, he says that the women of London itself were never more carn strumpets than those of Chester, by which he means that there were never more arrant harlots in the world than those of the cheese capital.

And the last of your great poets, Gronwy Owen, who flourished about the middle of the last century, complains in a letter to a friend, whilst living in a village of Lancashire, that he was amongst Carn Saeson.

He found all English disagreeable enough, but those of Lancashire particularly so--savage, brutish louts, out-and-out John Bulls, and therefore he called them Carn Saeson." "Thank you, sir," said my companion; "I now thoroughly understand the meaning of carn.

Whenever I go to Chester, and a dressed-up madam jostles against me, I shall call her carn-butein.

The Pope of Rome I shall in future term carn-lleidyr y byd, or the arch thief of the world.
And whenever I see a stupid, brutal Englishman swaggering about Llangollen, and looking down upon us poor Welsh, I shall say to myself Get home, you carn Sais! Well, sir, we are now near Llangollen; I must turn to the left.