callet

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Hoc bene qui callet, (si quis tamen hoc bene callet,) Scribe vel invito sapientem hunc Socrate solum.

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  1. A tattling or talkative woman; a scold; a gossip. Come hither, you old callet, you tattling huswife. Gascoigne.
  2. A trull; a drab; a lewd woman. He call'd her whore; a beggar, in his drink, Could not have laid such terms upon his callet. Shak., Othello, iv. 2.
  3. To rail; scold. To hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean. R. Brathwaite, Care's Cure, in Panedone.

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  1. Also written callat, callot; from French caillette, a frivolous babbling woman, diminutive of caille, a quail: see quail.
  2. from callet, n.
 

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