different between deceitful vs chaunter

English

Alternative forms

• deceiptful (obsolete)
• deceiptfull (obsolete)
• deceitfull (archaic)

Etymology

deceit +? -ful

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??si?tf?l/, /-fl?/

Adjective

deceitful (comparative more deceitful, superlative most deceitful)

1. Deliberately misleading or cheating.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, [Act II, scene vii]:

     All the?e are ?eruants to deceitfull men.
2. Deceptive, two-faced.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deceptive

Translations

English

Etymology

Variant of chanter.

Noun

chaunter (plural chaunters)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
2. (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.

   • He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.

3. The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.

Middle English

Noun

chaunter

1. Alternative form of chauntour (“chanter”)

Old French

Verb

chaunter

1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.