gaunty

English

Adjective

gaunty (comparative more gaunty, superlative most gaunty)

  1. Obsolete form of jaunty.
    • 1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, Ainsworth's Magazine (page 480)
      "Heard my parody on him—eh?" inquired Captain Grey Friars, and then struck up in a gaunty style to the air of Paddy Carey—
    • 1865, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal (page 2)
      [Our recruits] have much oftener an hungered and shabby appearance than a gaunty or reckless aspect. Many of them have no strong ties of affection or bright hopes in life.
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