callet

See also: Callet

English

Etymology

Perhaps from caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or the Gaelic caille, "girl".

Noun

callet (plural callets)

  1. (obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
  2. (obsolete) A scold or gossip.

Quotations

  • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 4, Scene 2
    He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

Verb

callet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

  1. (obsolete) To rail or scold.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Brathwait to this entry?)

References

  • callet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

callet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of calleō
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