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SAUNTER , to loiter, lounge, walk idly or Iazily. The derivation of the word has given rise to some curiously far-fetched guesses; thus it has been referred to the See also:Holy See also:Land, La Sainte Terre, where pilgrims lingered and loitered, or to the supposed tendency to idle propensities of those who possess no landed See also:property, sans terre. The most probable suggestions are (1) that of See also:Wedgwood, who connects it with a word in exactly the See also:English sense which appears in various forms in Scandinavian See also:languages, Icel. slentr, See also:Dan. slentre, Swed. slentra, cf. slen, See also:sloth, slunt, lout; this derivation assumes the disappearance of the 1. (2) That supported by See also:Skeat, and first propounded by Blackley (Word See also:Gossip, 1869), which connects it with the See also:Middle Eng. aunter, See also:adventure; it may represent the Fr. s'aventurer, to go out on an adventure, and the sense-development would be from the idle and apparently objectless expeditions of knights-errant in See also:search of adventure. End of Article: SAUNTERAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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