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callet¹

  • /ˈkælət/

Where it comes from

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).

noun callets

  1. obsolete A trull or prostitute.
  2. obsolete A scold or gossip.

verb callets · calleting · calleted

  1. obsolete To rail or scold. hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean

callet²

Where it comes from

From French callet.

noun callets

  1. A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking. You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.

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@misc{callet_2026,
  title = {callet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/callet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}