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callet

/ˈkælət/

callet noun: a trull or prostitute.

Noun (1)

callet (plural callets)

  1. (obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
  2. (obsolete) A scold or gossip.

Verb

callet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

  1. (obsolete) To rail or scold.
    • hear her in her spleen
      Callet like a butter-queanc. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys

Noun (2)

callet (plural callets)

  1. A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.
    • You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN
    • In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press

Forms of callet

Noun
pluralcallets
Verb
third-person singular presentcallets
present participlecalleting
past participlecalleted
pastcalleted

Origin of callet

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).

From French callet.

Questions about callet

What does callet mean?
Callet means a trull or prostitute.
What part of speech is callet?
Callet can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce callet?
Callet is pronounced /ˈkælət/.
What is the plural of callet?
The plural of callet is callets.

Words near callet in the dictionary

  1. Callery
  2. Callery pear
  3. Callery pears
  4. Callerys
  5. callest
  6. callet
  7. calleted
  8. calleth
  9. calleting
  10. callets
  11. Calley

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