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 or prostitute.
  • noun A scold or gossip.
  • verb obsolete To rail or scold.

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  • a drab, untidy woman

    July 13, 2008

  • (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