callant

noun

callant

noun

Etymology From Middle Dutch calant (Modern Dutch klant), from Picard kalant, from Old Northern French calant, from Old French chaloir (“to heat, to care about”).

Scotland lad, boy

It was before the day of my ministry in Caulds, for then I was a tot callant in short clothes in my native parish of Lesmahagow; […]1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

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