gant
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
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Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public debt retirement.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 765 seats of the auditorium, Atlanta's most ele gant citizens, jewels clinking discreetly at wrist and throat, settled down for the grand opening of Theater Atlanta's brand-new $1,200,000 repertory house.
From Time Magazine Archive
The poet Davydd ab Gwilym, in a humorous account of his troubles in a mist, in the year 1340, says: Yr ydoedd ym mhob gobant Ellyllon mingeimion gant.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
I gant make out, aldo I haf vatched dem sharp all day.
From Friday, the Thirteenth by Thomas William Lawson
A play upon the words gant, a glove, and Gand, the French for Ghent.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jabez had gone along, an' it must have ganted him consid'able to heave out the wampum for that bunch; but you should have seen him swell up when folks got to talkin' about 'em.
From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason
I stood to my feet and ganted with great deliberation to pretend I had been half-sleeping.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
Looks like he was kind of ganted up, don't it?
From Way of the Lawless by Max Brand
But honest to God, Rufe, some of them little runty cows that hang around the river can’t hardly cast a shadder, they’re that ganted, and calves seems to be gittin’ kinder scarce, too.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
I never won much of a reputation for bein' slow, an' I weigh one ninety when I'm ganted down to workin' trim.
From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason
John Splendid, ganting sleepily, pointed at the fellow's disappearing skirts.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
So no more at present, for my man is sitting ganting for my society, and I daresay yours is crying to you to darn his old socks.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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