callant

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch calant (Modern Dutch klant), from Picard kalant, from Old Northern French calant, from Old French chaloir (to heat, to care about).

Noun

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callant (plural callants)

  1. (Scotland) lad, boy
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      It was before the day of my ministry in Caulds, for then I was a tot callant in short clothes in my native parish of Lesmahagow; []

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Verb

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callant

  1. gerund of callar