callant
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]callant (plural callants)
- (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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[edit]Verb
[edit]callant