aroint

Definitions

• Used in the imperative to express an order of dismissal. transitive verb  …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition  (view on wordnik.com)
• An interjectional imperative, equivalent, in the passages quoted, to avaunt! begone! See etymology.  …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary  (view on wordnik.com)
• To say “aroint” to; bid begone.  …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary  (view on wordnik.com)
• Stand off, or begone. interjection  …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English  (view on wordnik.com)
• To drive or scare off by some exclamation. transitive verb  …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English  (view on wordnik.com)
• to dispel, to drive away verb  …☝️ Source: Wiktionary  (view on wordnik.com)
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Etymology

• intransitive verb, c. 1600, used by Shakespeare (only in imperative: "begone!"), obsolete and of obscure origin. "[T]he subject of numerous conjectures, none of which can be said to have even a prima facie probability." [OED]1600

Neighbors, alphabetically speaking

• army
• armyworm
• arna
• arnatto
• arnica
• arnotto
• arnut
• aroba
• aroha
• aroid
• aroint
• arointed
• arointing
• arolla
• aroma
• aromatase
• aromatherapies
• aromatherapist
• aromatherapy
• aromatic

Superstrings words that contain this word

• arointed
• arointing
• aroints