larrikin

Origin: , possibly from *larick (Northern England) (an unattested variant of lark, from laverock; compare the variant forms lairock, larrock (chiefly Northern England), larick, larrick (chiefly Scotland)) + . However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that it is not clear why a word attested in the West Midlands (particularly Warwickshire and Worcestershire) and in Southwest England (Cornwall) would be derived from a word from Northern England. Other suggestions include the following: The Oxford English Dictionary states there is no evidence of such an incident having been reported in the local n. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).