gauntadj.

Brit.

/ɡɔːnt/,

/ɡɑːnt/, U.S.

/ɡɔnt/

Forms: Middle English gawnt(e, 1500s ga(u)nte, 1500s–1600s, 1800s– (U.S. dialect) gant, 1500s– gaunt.

Etymology: Of unknown origin: Prof. Skeat compares Norwegian gand thin pointed stick, tall thin man (Aasen), and Swedish dialect gank a lean and nearly starved horse (Rietz). All other words in -aunt (except flaunt ) are of French origin. The prevailing early use might suggest that the word was a graphic adoption of gant = Old French gent , gent n.², elegant.

†1. In favourable or neutral sense: Slim, slender, not fat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective]

genta1275

smallc1275

slendera1400

slightc1400

gauntc1440

light-bodiedc1487

jimp?a1513

slender-bodied1611

snever1640

slim1657

gend1676

scranky1735

light built1778

sveltea1825

spindly1827

slimmish1841

slippy1883

slenderish1894

slim-down1978

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin

leanc1000

thinc1000

swonga1300

meagrea1398

empty?c1400

(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405

macilent?a1425

rawc1425

gauntc1440

to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450

leany?a1475

swampc1480

scarrya1500

pinched1514

extenuate1528

lean-fleshed1535

carrion-lean1542

spare1548

lank1553

carrion1565

brawn-fallen1578

raw-bone1590

scraggeda1591

thin-bellied1591

rake-lean1593

bare-boned1594

forlorn1594

Lented1594

lean-looked1597

shotten herring1598

spiny1598

starved1598

thin-belly1598

raw-boned1600

larbar1603

meagry?1603

fleshless1605

scraggy1611

ballow1612

lank-leana1616

skinnya1616

hagged1616

scraggling1616

carrion-like1620

extenuated1620

thin-gutted1620

haggard1630

scrannel1638

leanisha1645

skeletontal1651

overlean1657

emaciated1665

slank1668

lathy1672

emaciate1676

nithered1691

emacerated1704

lean-looking1713

scranky1735

squinny-gut(s)1742

mauger1756

squinny1784

angular1789

etiolated1791

as thin (also lean) as a rail1795

wiry1808

slink1817

scranny1820

famine-hollowed1822

sharp featured1824

reedy1830

scrawny1833

stringy1833

lean-ribbeda1845

skeletony1852

famine-pinched1856

shelly1866

flesh-fallen1876

thinnish1884

all horn and hide1890

unfurnished1893

bone-thin1899

underweight1899

asthenic1925

skin-and-bony1935

skinny-malinky1940

skeletal1952

pencil-neck1960

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gawnt or lene, maciolentus [sic]. Gawnte or swonge (K. or slendyr), gracilis.

1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 230 The King..was nothing so lusty nor so gaunte, when I saw him last, as He is nowe..I wold not haue beleved He had byne in so good case as He is nowe, if I had not sene Him myself.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Sii Sodenlye she was gaunte agayne [sc. after childbirth].

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 154^v The Dogge that is for the folde, must neyther be so gaunt nor swyft as the Grayhound, nor so fatte nor heauy as the Masty.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 152 They who feed ouermuch, and desire to be gant and slender..ought to forbear drinking at meales.

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cl. 229 It [groundsell] is much used to be given to tame Rabbets when they are pot-bellyed..to make them gaunt and healthfull.

1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 10 If you would chuse a swift, light Hound..he ought to have a slender Head..broad Back, gaunt Belly, small Tail..and in fine, of a Grey-hound-like make.

1690 London Gaz. No. 2572/4 One light grey Mare, comes 7, about 15 hands, a gant Body.

1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Gant, lusty, hearty and healthful. [Cf. quot. 1546].

c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Gant, of a greyhound, or a racehorse, being thin in the flanks.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 516 He was quite well (though as gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape.]

a. Abnormally lean, as from hunger; haggard-looking; tall, thin, and angular in appearance.

ΚΠ

c1440 [see sense 1].

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxiii. 117 If the colour begin to faint, or the bodie to be gaunt.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 74 O how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeede, and gaunt in being olde.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 82 Gaunt am I for the graue, gaunt as a graue.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xiii. 59 For what Alliance, what relation Hath the gant Wolfe w^th the Innocent Lamb?

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 Gaunt are his sides, and sullen is his face.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 31 His tall, gaunt, awkward boney figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 17 A tall gaunt woman with blue eyes and snow-white hair.

figurative.1803 R. Heber Palestine 20 Wide-wasting Plague, gaunt Famine, mad Despair.

b. Hungry, greedy, ravenous. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > extremely hungry

afingered?a1300

anhungereda1387

ahungereda1450

ravened1627

ravenous1648

gaunt1746

yird-hungry1825

wolfish1848

1746 T. Smollett Reproof 125 Gorg'd with our plunder, yet still gaunt for spoil, Rapacious Gideon fastens on our isle.

3. transferred. Of inanimate things: Grim or desolate of aspect; †(of a sound), suggestive of desolation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective]

complainingc1430

plainful1598

dismala1616

querulous1628

groaning1697

plaintive1697

gaunt1814

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] > of aspect

gaunt1814

1814 J. Galt Prophetess i. v Like the gaunt echo of a hollow tomb.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. i. 47 I had ever before me..the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air—the faces all awry.

1871 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy i Mortiboy's parlour is a gaunt cold room.

1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xi. 349 Human art has been thrust..even into hostility with our stern and gaunt devoutness.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xv. 156 I am at present..surrounded by gaunt realities.

1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xiv Paul walked among the naked trees of the gaunt wood at the foot of Coledale.

Compounds

gaunt-bellied, gaunt-looking adjs.

ΚΠ

1629 J. Gaule Distractions 324 Is he not mostly..Gaunt belly'd.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 70 Mounds of ice..split into high towers and gaunt-looking pyramids.

Derivatives

ˈgaunted adj. made lean or meagre; starved.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > starving or starved

hungryc950

ofhungeredOE

hungeredc1425

famylousc1475

forhungered1481

hunger-starvena1533

starven1546

hunger-bit1549

hunger-bitten1549

affamished1554

starved1563

starving1581

gaunted1582

famishing1587

food-sick1587

hunger-starving1592

famined1622

gut-foundered1647

hunger-starved1647

starved-gut1653

half-starved1667

clemmed1674

nushed1691

pinch-gutted1704

starve-gutted1726

clemming1773

clung1807

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 32 Lyke rauening woolfdams vpsoackt and gaunted in hunger.

1887 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 475/2 Looks right puny an' ga'nted.

1890 D. S. Cage in Shields Big Game N. Amer. 476 A gorged Wolf is not fast..but when properly ‘gaunted’, few horses can catch a Gray Wolf.

1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 333 His face was pale..an' he was ganted down in weight a little.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gaunt
释义	gauntadj. Brit. /ɡɔːnt/, /ɡɑːnt/, U.S. /ɡɔnt/ Forms: Middle English gawnt(e, 1500s ga(u)nte, 1500s–1600s, 1800s– (U.S. dialect) gant, 1500s– gaunt. Etymology: Of unknown origin: Prof. Skeat compares Norwegian gand thin pointed stick, tall thin man (Aasen), and Swedish dialect gank a lean and nearly starved horse (Rietz). All other words in -aunt (except flaunt ) are of French origin. The prevailing early use might suggest that the word was a graphic adoption of gant = Old French gent , gent n.², elegant. †1. In favourable or neutral sense: Slim, slender, not fat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] genta1275 smallc1275 slendera1400 slightc1400 gauntc1440 light-bodiedc1487 jimp?a1513 slender-bodied1611 snever1640 slim1657 gend1676 scranky1735 light built1778 sveltea1825 spindly1827 slimmish1841 slippy1883 slenderish1894 slim-down1978 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gawnt or lene, maciolentus [sic]. Gawnte or swonge (K. or slendyr), gracilis. 1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 230 The King..was nothing so lusty nor so gaunte, when I saw him last, as He is nowe..I wold not haue beleved He had byne in so good case as He is nowe, if I had not sene Him myself. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Sii Sodenlye she was gaunte agayne [sc. after childbirth]. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 154^v The Dogge that is for the folde, must neyther be so gaunt nor swyft as the Grayhound, nor so fatte nor heauy as the Masty. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 152 They who feed ouermuch, and desire to be gant and slender..ought to forbear drinking at meales. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cl. 229 It [groundsell] is much used to be given to tame Rabbets when they are pot-bellyed..to make them gaunt and healthfull. 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 10 If you would chuse a swift, light Hound..he ought to have a slender Head..broad Back, gaunt Belly, small Tail..and in fine, of a Grey-hound-like make. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2572/4 One light grey Mare, comes 7, about 15 hands, a gant Body. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Gant, lusty, hearty and healthful. [Cf. quot. 1546]. c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Gant, of a greyhound, or a racehorse, being thin in the flanks. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 516 He was quite well (though as gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape.] 2. a. Abnormally lean, as from hunger; haggard-looking; tall, thin, and angular in appearance. ΚΠ c1440 [see sense 1]. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxiii. 117 If the colour begin to faint, or the bodie to be gaunt. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 74 O how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeede, and gaunt in being olde. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 82 Gaunt am I for the graue, gaunt as a graue. View more context for this quotation 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xiii. 59 For what Alliance, what relation Hath the gant Wolfe w^th the Innocent Lamb? 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 Gaunt are his sides, and sullen is his face. View more context for this quotation 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 31 His tall, gaunt, awkward boney figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 17 A tall gaunt woman with blue eyes and snow-white hair. figurative.1803 R. Heber Palestine 20 Wide-wasting Plague, gaunt Famine, mad Despair. b. Hungry, greedy, ravenous. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > extremely hungry afingered?a1300 anhungereda1387 ahungereda1450 ravened1627 ravenous1648 gaunt1746 yird-hungry1825 wolfish1848 1746 T. Smollett Reproof 125 Gorg'd with our plunder, yet still gaunt for spoil, Rapacious Gideon fastens on our isle. 3. transferred. Of inanimate things: Grim or desolate of aspect; †(of a sound), suggestive of desolation. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] complainingc1430 plainful1598 dismala1616 querulous1628 groaning1697 plaintive1697 gaunt1814 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] > of aspect gaunt1814 1814 J. Galt Prophetess i. v Like the gaunt echo of a hollow tomb. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. i. 47 I had ever before me..the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air—the faces all awry. 1871 W. Besant & J. Rice Ready-money Mortiboy i Mortiboy's parlour is a gaunt cold room. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xi. 349 Human art has been thrust..even into hostility with our stern and gaunt devoutness. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xv. 156 I am at present..surrounded by gaunt realities. 1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xiv Paul walked among the naked trees of the gaunt wood at the foot of Coledale. Compounds gaunt-bellied, gaunt-looking adjs. ΚΠ 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 324 Is he not mostly..Gaunt belly'd. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 70 Mounds of ice..split into high towers and gaunt-looking pyramids. Derivatives ˈgaunted adj. made lean or meagre; starved. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry > starving or starved hungryc950 ofhungeredOE hungeredc1425 famylousc1475 forhungered1481 hunger-starvena1533 starven1546 hunger-bit1549 hunger-bitten1549 affamished1554 starved1563 starving1581 gaunted1582 famishing1587 food-sick1587 hunger-starving1592 famined1622 gut-foundered1647 hunger-starved1647 starved-gut1653 half-starved1667 clemmed1674 nushed1691 pinch-gutted1704 starve-gutted1726 clemming1773 clung1807 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 32 Lyke rauening woolfdams vpsoackt and gaunted in hunger. 1887 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 475/2 Looks right puny an' ga'nted. 1890 D. S. Cage in Shields Big Game N. Amer. 476 A gorged Wolf is not fast..but when properly ‘gaunted’, few horses can catch a Gray Wolf. 1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 333 His face was pale..an' he was ganted down in weight a little. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : gantgauntn. also refers to : gantgauntv. < adj.c1440 see also
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gauntadj.

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