witwanton
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One who indulges in idle, foolish, and irreverent fancies or speculations
One who indulges in idle, foolish, and irreverent fancies or speculations; one who tries to be cleverly amusing but falls short.
- All epicures, witwantons, atheists.
- And how dangerous it is for wit-wanton men to dance with their nice distinctions, on such mystical precipices, where slips in jest may cause deadly downfalls in earnest, …
- Word-warriors and wit-wantons would waste their breath upon one whose book-hunger has won him so rich a meed, ...
To indulge in vain, sportive, or irreverent wit
To indulge in vain, sportive, or irreverent wit; speculate idly or irreverently.
- … a citizen in Cheapside was executed as a traitor for saying he would make his son heir to the crown, though he only meant his own house, having a crown for the sign, more dangerous it is to wit-wanton it with the Majesty of God.
- Wit-wanton it with lewd barbarity, …
- And Master Lynch bade him have a care to flout and witwanton as the god self was angered for his hellprate and paganry.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA