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Callant

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    lad, boy Scotland

    "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; […]"

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”).

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