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Trant vs Truant - What's the difference?

trant | truant |

In intransitive terms the difference between trant and truant

is that trant is to turn; play a trick while truant is to play truant.

As an adjective truant is

absent without permission, especially from school.

trant

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tranten, from or cognate with (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To walk; go about.
  • To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
  • To turn; play a trick.
    • Derived terms
    * tranter

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) trant, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turn; trick; stratagem.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) ----

    truant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Absent without permission, especially from school.
  • :
  • Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
  • :
  • *1603+ , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 1, Scene 2
  • *:A truant disposition, good my lord.
  • *1772 , , p.149
  • *:While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.

    • Derived terms

    * truant officer

    Noun

    (truants)
  • One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

    • Derived terms

    * play truant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play truant.
    • the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
  • To idle away; to waste.
  • * Ford
    • I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
  • To idle away time.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Lowell
    • By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.