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▪ I. drant, draunt, v. dial.|drɑːnt, -æ-|
[app. onomatopœic, after drawl or drone and rant. Recorded from Scotl. and E. Anglia. Other dialects have drunt, drate.]
intr. To drawl or drone in speech. b. trans. To drawl or drone out.
1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 141 To drivel and drant While I sigh and gaunt. a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 74 (Jam.) To draunt and drivel out a life at hame. 1796Burns On Life viii, Lest you think I am uncivil To plague you with this draunting drivel. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Drant, to drawl in speaking or reading; more properly draunt (like aunt). It may be connected with drone.
▪ II. drant, draunt, n. dial.
[f. prec. vb.]
a. A droning or drawling tone.
b. ‘A slow and dull tune’ (Jam.).
1721Ramsay Lucky Spence's Last Advice ii, Nor wi' your draunts and droning deave me. 1781Burns Tarbolton Lasses (2nd Poem) xiv, To wait on their drants. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., He reads with a drant. 1852Aird Mem. Moir in M.'s Poet. Wks. I. ii. 29 A kind of rant, or drant..often fixes itself upon the public. |