chaun

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

chaun (plural chauns)

1. (obsolete) A gap[17th century]

Verb

chaun (third-person singular simple present chauns, present participle chauning, simple past and past participle chauned)

1. (obsolete) To open; to yawn.
   • c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     O, chaun thy breast.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “chaun”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nucha

Romansch

Alternative forms

• tgaun (Sursilvan)
• tgàn (Sutsilvan)
• tgang (Surmiran)
• chan (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin canis, canem.

Noun

chaun m (plural chauns)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) (male) dog

Coordinate terms

• (sex):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun) chogna
  • (Puter) chagna