chaunter

English

Etymology

Variant of chanter.

Noun

chaunter (plural chaunters)

(UK, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads or similar songs.
(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.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Middle English

Noun

chaunter

Alternative form of chauntour (“chanter”)

Old French

Verb

chaunter

(late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter

Conjugation

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