saunt

== Scots == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle Scots sanct, sant, from Northern Middle English sant, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and partly from and confluence with Anglo-Norman seint, from Old French saint, seinte; both ultimately from Latin sanctus (“holy, consecrated, saint”). Close cognate with English saint and French saint. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [sɑːnt], [sɔːnt] (Northern, Insular) IPA(key): [saːn(ʔ)t] === Noun === saunt (plural saunts) (Christianity) A canonized saint. (colloquial) An exceptionally holy, pious, and/or kind person. (Calvinism) One of the elect. (derogatory) A wastrel, a sanctimonious hypocrite; a reprobate. === Verb === saunt (third-person singular simple present saunts, present participle sauntin, simple past saunt, past participle santet or sauntit or saunten) (intransitive) To disappear, vanish; especially in a sudden and/or mysterious way. (intransitive) To be silently swallowed up. (transitive) To cause to vanish in a sudden or inexplicable manner; to spirit away. ==== Alternative forms ==== saant, saint, seint, sanct === References === Dictionary of the Scots Language - saunt