ppl. adj. (streets’).—Sung of, and celebrated, in street ballads. [From CHAUNT, to sing street ballads, + ED.]—See CHANTING, subs., sense 2.
1827. REYNOLDS (‘Peter Corcoran’). Lines to Philip Samson in The Fancy.
| Be content that you’ve beat Dolly Smith, and been CHAUNTED,— | |
| And train’d—stripp’d—and pitted,—and hit off your legs! |
