Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A shortened form of
avant- . - An old spelling of
vaunt .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete See
vaunt .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
Eye dialect spelling ofwant .
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Examples
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The old man turned, thought about it for a second and said, “A servant is someone who, when he walks into a room, makes it look emptier than it was before.”
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Ions, Fe+3, and 3 NO3-1. this number of Ions a compund dissolves into is called the vant hoff factor.
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Okay I get the "vant" part and I'll concede that it probably says "suck" and is just hard to read, but what's up with the "ur"?
Halloween Heckling 2009
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I also remember a kid with vampire teeth and a littel black cape chasing this red faced Chinese-looking boy, saying, in a received Boris Karloff accent "I vant to suck your Oriental."
Understand, Rubberband? Christian Crumlish 2011
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“You vant cigarette?” she said in a Russian accent he'd also expected.
Mystery by the Bay vic fortezza 2011
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“You vant cigarette?” she said in a Russian accent he'd also expected.
Mystery by the Bay vic fortezza 2011
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Me, I'm curled up in bed with my computer and a profound case of the Garbos ( "I vant to be alone").
A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010
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Me, I'm curled up in bed with my computer and a profound case of the Garbos ( "I vant to be alone").
A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010
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Bela Lugosi's Eastern European accented greeting, "I vant to drink your blood," with its staggered cadence, is forever the fodder of Halloween skits, yet his Count Dracula (in Tod Browning's 1932 classic) is among the nobler ones.
Psychos and Suckers 2010
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I vill splash the bath vater whenever the fack I vant!
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