avaunt
/əˈvɔːnt
/exclamation archaic
Go away: avaunt, you worm-faced fellows of the night!...
- He led the litany with, ‘Christians, avaunt! ‘and the crowd responded, ‘Epicureans, avaunt!’
- Avaunt, and quit my sight!
- To thee, O Sickness, I say avaunt!
Origin
Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French avant, from Latin ab 'from' + ante 'before'.
Rhymes
- monumental sculpture
- monumentary
- put someone on notice (or serve notice)
- put someone on their mettle
- put someone on the spot
- put someone on to
- put someone (or something) through their (or its) paces
- put someone out
- put someone out to pasture
- put someone's eyes out
- put someone's nose out of joint
- put someone's (or have one's) ass in a sling
- put someone/thing on the map
- put someone/thing out of one's mind
- put someone/thing out of their misery
- put someone/thing to flight
- put someone/thing to the test
- put someone through
- put someone through the wringer (or the mangle)
- put someone to
- put someone to bed
- put someone to death
- put someone to shame
- put someone to sleep
- put someone under