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aroint

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[uh-roint] / əˈrɔɪnt /

verb

Obsolete.

  1. begone.

    Aroint thee, varlet!

Etymology

Origin of aroint

First recorded in 1595–1605; of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

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You shall not make a poetry cocktail out of Tennyson and Coleridge, and jam it down my throat; or I'll aroint myself.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge

No matter where the anchor dropped, The fiends would not aroint, And every morn the pungy boat Still lay off Haunted Point.

From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred

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