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chaunter

chaunter noun: a street seller of ballads or similar songs. Also the obsolete spelling of chanter.

Noun

chaunter (plural chaunters)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A street seller of ballads or similar songs.
  2. (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
    • He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
  3. The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.

Also used as

chaunter is also the obsolete spelling of chanter.

Forms of chaunter

pluralchaunters

Origin of chaunter

Variant of chanter.

Questions about chaunter

What does chaunter mean?
Chaunter means a street seller of ballads or similar songs.
What part of speech is chaunter?
Chaunter is a noun.
What is the plural of chaunter?
The plural of chaunter is chaunters.

Words near chaunter in the dictionary

  1. chaunging
  2. chaunk
  3. chauns
  4. chaunt
  5. chaunted
  6. chaunter
  7. chaunters
  8. chaunting
  9. chauntings
  10. chauntries
  11. chauntry

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