chaunter

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English

Etymology

Variant of chanter.

Noun

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

  • 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Middle English

Noun

chaunter

  1. Alternative form of chauntour (“chanter”)

Old French

Verb

chaunter

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

Conjugation

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.

    Conjugation of chaunter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive chaunter aveir chaunté
gerund en chauntant gerund of aveir + past participle
present participle chauntant
past participle chaunté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present chaunt chauntes chaunte chauntons chauntez chauntent
imperfect chaunteie, chauntoe, chaunteve chaunteies, chauntoes, chaunteves chaunteit, chauntot, chaunteve chauntiiens, chauntiens chauntiiez, chauntiez chaunteient, chauntoent, chauntevent
preterite chauntai chauntas chaunta chauntames chauntastes chaunterent
future chaunterai chaunteras chauntera chaunterons chauntereiz, chaunterez chaunteront
conditional chauntereie chauntereies chauntereit chaunteriiens, chaunteriens chaunteriiez, chaunteriez chauntereient
compound
tenses 		present perfect present tense of aveir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of aveir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of aveir + past participle
future perfect future tense of aveir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of aveir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present chaunt chaunz chaunt chauntons chauntez chauntent
imperfect chauntasse chauntasses chauntast chauntissons, chauntissiens chauntisseiz, chauntissez, chauntissiez chauntassent
compound
tenses 		past present subjunctive of aveir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of aveir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— chaunte — chauntons chauntez —
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