vant

Pronunciation spelling of want.

Verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of want.
    • "Come, now, deacon," said the shopkeeper, abruptly dropping the cat, "you can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant, but you mustn't turn it up at my shurch. - 1890, John Habberton, All He Knew:
    • "Ay vant to get married," blushed Pete, who is by way of being a Scandinavian. - 1922, Various, Best Short Stories:
    • His boss, A.J. Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!? - 1992 January 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

vants vanting vanted

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