chaunter

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.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• chanteur

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	—