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jaunties

jaunties is the plural of jaunty.

Meaning of jaunty

Noun

jaunty (plural jaunties)

  1. A master-at-arms on board a Royal Navy ship.
    • ‘When libertymen come back there’s the quartermaster, the crusher, the officer of the day, sometimes the Jaunty hisself and usually Big Bill.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 74
    Synonyms:
    jonty

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Questions about jaunties

What is jaunties the plural of?
Jaunties is the plural of jaunty.

Words near jaunties in the dictionary

  1. jaunted
  2. jauntee
  3. jaunter
  4. jaunters
  5. jauntier
  6. jaunties
  7. jauntiest
  8. jauntily
  9. jauntiness
  10. jauntinesses
  11. jaunting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jaunties (page history and authors); jaunty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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