Crossword-Solution: AROINT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aroint | interj. | Stand off, or begone. |
| Aroint | v. t. | To drive or scare off by some exclamation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AROINT | anagram | ARINTO, RATION, ROITAN, TIRANO, TORINA, TRANIO |
We have 13 clues for the answer “AROINT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "___ thee, witch!": Shak. | 1 answer |
| Begone!—Shakespeare. | 1 answer |
| Begone, as coined by Shakespeare. | 1 answer |
| Scram, old style. | 1 answer |
| Scram: Shakespearean. | 1 answer |
| Shakespeare's "begone." | 1 answer |
| Shakespeare's word for "Get out!" | 1 answer |
| Shakespearean "Begone!" | 1 answer |
| "Begone," to Shakespeare | 2 answers |
| Begone!, in Shakespeare's day. | 2 answers |
| BEGONE STARTER | 10 answers |
| Drive away | 16 answers |
| "Begone!" | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AROINT (5)
Swithold footed thrice the old; He met the nightmare, and her nine-fold; Bid her alight and her troth plight, And aroint thee, witch, aroint thee! KENT.
Aroint thee, wench! I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him.
PURGANAX: Aroint ye! thou unprofitable worm! [TO THE LEECH.] And thou, dull beetle, get thee back to hell! _270 [TO THE GADFLY.] To sting the ghosts of Babylonian kings, And the ox-headed Io-- SWINE (WITHIN): Ugh, ugh, ugh! Hail! Iona the divine, We will be no longer Swine, But Bulls with horns and dewlaps.
CHORUS OF WITCHES: Come onward, away! aroint thee, aroint! A witch to be strong must anoint--anoint-- Then every trough will be boat enough; _205 With a rag for a sail we can sweep through the sky, Who flies not to-night, when means he to fly? BOTH CHORUSES: We cling to the skirt, and we strike on the ground; Witch-legions thicken around and around; Wizard-swarms cover the heath all over.
This reminds me of Shakspeare's 'Aroint thee, witch!' I find in several books of that age the words _aloigne_ and _eloigne_--that is,--'keep your distance!' or 'off with you!' Perhaps 'aroint' was a corruption of 'aloigne' by the vulgar.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1943–2015).