Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tattling or talkative woman; a scold; a gossip.
- noun A trull; a drab; a lewd woman.
- To rail; scold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
- intransitive verb obsolete To rail or scold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trull orprostitute . - noun A
scold orgossip . - verb obsolete To
rail orscold .
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Examples
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May 12, 2009 at 9: 32 PM if windows people did this thing and callet it "superbar", they must make some plugins as integrating recycle bin completely (drag&drop, right click-empty) or some other useful stuff.
Put A Recycle Bin Shortcut On The Windows 7 Taskbar | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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May 12, 2009 at 9:32 PM if windows people did this thing and callet it "superbar", they must make some plugins as integrating recycle bin completely drag&drop, right click-empty or some other useful stuff.
Put A Recycle Bin Shortcut On The Windows 7 Taskbar | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Qui rebus se exercet, verba negligit, et qui callet artem dicendi, nullam disciplinam habet recognitam.
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His language to the wife whom he still loves while believing himself dishonored by her is such that "a beggar, in his drink, could not have laid such terms upon his callet."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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I'm as happy with my wallet, my bottle, and my callet, [trull]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Mamma callet for me, ant says, 'Karl Ivanitch, I gif you my children.
Boyhood Leo Tolstoy 1869
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_Magnetick Lady_, speaks of "wearing the callet, the politic hood."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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§ II.ed. meæ, "quos probe callet, qui signorum ortus et obitus comprehendit,"
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840
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But what you gain in fashion you lose in function: Unlike the "callet," you have to pull the phone from the case to make a call, check a text or take a photo. $39 plus $20 shipping; porter.com
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The goofily named "callet," which fits BlackBerrys and iPhones, has a protective case for your phone with slotted pockets for cash and cards on the back.
sionnach commented on the word callet
a drab, untidy woman
July 13, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word callet
(noun/verb) - (1) A vulgar, scolding, ill-tempered, unchaste woman; an ancient word in common use, though perishing from literature. "A callet of boundless tongue who late hath beat her husband." The Winter's Tale. "A beggar in his drink could not have laid such terms upon his callet." Othello.
--Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874
(2) To scold, as a calleting housewife.
--John Ray's Words Not Generally Used, 1691
January 14, 2018