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gannet|ˈgænɪt|
Forms: α. 1 ganot, 5 ganate, -ette, 6 gannett, (gannard), 8 ganet, 6– gannet. β. 5–6 gante, 6–9 gaunt(e, 6, 8 gant.
[OE. ganot str. masc., is cogn. with Du. gent, MHG. ganiȥ, genȥ str. masc., OHG. ganaȥȥo (MHG. ganȥe) wk. masc., all meaning ‘gander’:—OTeut. types *ganito, ganoto(n, f. the same root as gander. The Teut. word was early adopted in Rom.; the OF. form gante may be the source of the β forms in Eng.]
1. The Solan goose (Sula bassana).
α Beowulf 1862 Ofer ganotes bæð. a1000O.E. Chron. an. 975 Þa wearð eac adræfed..Oslac of earde..ofer ganotes bæð. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 202 Ganates grece. a1490Botoner Itin. (Nasmith 1778) 111 Ibi nidificant aves vocatæ ganettys. 1556W. Towrson in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 123 We got certaine foules like vnto Gannards. 1570Levins Manip. 88/4 A gannet, bird, penelops. 1602Carew Cornwall 34 a, Certaine birds called Gannets soare ouer and stoup to prey vpon them. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 263/1 The Cornish Gannet, called also a Skua. 1766Pennant Zool. (1768) II. 482 The Gannets are birds of passage. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 358 The Gannet, or Solan Goose. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. (1852) 457 The gannets sitting on their rude nests gaze at one with a stupid yet angry air.
βc1440Promp. Parv. 186/1 Gante, byrde, bistarda. a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 447 The gaglynge gaunte, and the churlysshe chowgh. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 32 b, Yet droue she out all the gantes or bystardes there, yf their churche legende be true. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 195 A great white foule, called of some a Gaunt. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 348 They judge of the shoal being there by the Gant, a bird that pursues the fish.
2. A greedy person, esp. a greedy seaman. slang.
1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 56 Gannet, a greedy seaman. 1950P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 91 The bet may be on how many plates of porridge one ‘gannet’ can put away at a sitting. 1969Gandalf's Garden iv. 34/3 (Advt.), Welcome to our humble guest house all holiday-makers, meditators, yogis or vegetarian gannets. |