gantgauntn.
/ɡɑːnt/, /ɡant/, /ɡɔːnt/, U.S. /ɡɑnt/, /ɡɔnt/, Scottish English /ɡant/, /ɡɔnt/ Scottish.
A yawn, a gape; gaping.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. viii. 36 The soundis brak with gasping, or a gant.
?1800 Ghaist 4 When the lang drawlin' gaunt, an' drowsy eʽe, Shaw't bed-time come.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 746 They..put up their hauns to their chafts, to conceal a suppressed gaunt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gantgauntv.
/ɡɑːnt/, /ɡant/, /ɡɔːnt/, U.S. /ɡɑnt/, /ɡɔnt/, Scottish English /ɡant/, /ɡɔnt/ Scottish.
intransitive. To yawn, gape.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > be or become drowsy [verb (intransitive)] > yawn
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. viii. 144 Quhen he list gant or blaw, the fire is bett.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 20 Ilk weary Wight, Was gaunting for his Rest.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 505 This mony a day I've grain'd and gaunted, To ken [etc.].
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 247 I never ask what brings the Laird of Dumbiedikes glowering here..day after day, till we are a' like to gaunt our chafts aff.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi. 272 When he gants his last on a rickle of cauld stanes.
Derivatives
ˈganting n.
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1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest v. sig. A6v Ganting of mowthe.
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 53 Of the which commeth ganting, rifting, winds.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 346 All groomes, when thou greits, at thy ganting bee agast.
ˈgaunting n.
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1844 A. Smart in D. Robertson Songs for Nursery 37 Awa' wi' your gauntin'.
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