Definition of "vant"

vant

verb
third-person singular simple present vants, present participle vanting, simple past and past participle vanted
1. Pronunciation spelling of want.
  Quotations
  "Come, now, deacon," said the shopkeeper, abruptly dropping the cat, "you can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant, but you mustn't turn it up at my shurch.
  1890, John Habberton, All He Knew‎
  "Ay vant to get married," blushed Pete, who is by way of being a Scandinavian.
  1922, Various, Best Short Stories‎
  His boss, A.J. Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!?
  1992 January 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing”, in Chicago Reader‎