callant

English

Etymology

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

callant (plural callants)

1. (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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Verb

callant

1. gerund of callar