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callant

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from chaloir
  2. derived from calant
  3. derived from kalant
  4. derived from calant

Definitions

  1. lad, boy

    • 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; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for callant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA