trant

• traunt

• IPA^(key): /tɹænt/

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• Rhymes: -ænt

From Middle English tranten, from or cognate with Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”).

trant (third-person singular simple present trants, present participle tranting, simple past and past participle tranted)

1. (intransitive) To walk; go about.
2. (intransitive) To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
3. (intransitive) To turn; play a trick.

• tranter

From Middle English trant, from Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”). Cognate with Dutch trant (“style, manner fashion, mode”), Swedish trant (“a step”).

trant (plural trants)

1. A turn; trick; stratagem.

• tranty

From Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”).

• IPA^(key): /trɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: trant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

trant m (uncountable)

1. manner

• in de trant van
• verhaaltrant
• verteltrant

• IPA^(key): /tɣãt/

trant

1. thirty

• trante, traunt

From Middle Dutch trant, from tranten (“to walk”).

• IPA^(key): /trant/

trant (plural trantes) (Late Middle English)

1. A stratagem, trick or trant; an act of cleverness.
2. Cleverness, trickiness; a tendency to be tricky.

• English: trant
• ⇒ Scots: tranty

• “trant(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 September 2018.