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Examples
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By the way, "Tas asked anxiously," you don't think he'd consider this trip 'galli - vanting,' do you?
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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'An' werry good veppings too, 'sez my feyther,' but vot might you be vanting vith me, Black Dan? '
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Vell, she gets con-werted, and she's alvays napping 'er bib over me, -- as you'd say, piping' er eye, d'ye see? vanting me to turn honest and be con-werted too.
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Vassya takes the watch, examines the mechanism for a long time, and wriggling and shrugging, says: "She can not be mended ... in vun veel two cogs are vanting ...."
Love Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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Oh! you letil chaste Vanoos! you very vanting letil Diane, Diana, I believe you call her.
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I am vanting you to pop over to my haus reit now and be giving me the body rub and be pushing your tank into my de-militarised zone where ze sun is not shining!
British Blogs 2009
yarb commented on the word vanting
Going out. Perhaps from Fr. avant, in front.
November 12, 2007