chaunter

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English

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Etymology

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Variant of chanter.

Noun

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chaunter (plural chaunters)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads or similar songs.
  2. (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
  3. The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chaunter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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chaunter

  1. Alternative form of chauntour (chanter)

Old French

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Verb

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chaunter

  1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.