English Dictionary

wanton

/ˈwɒntən/

noun

A pampered or coddled person. / An overly playful person; a trifler. / A self-indulgent person, fond of excess. / (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.

She is a wanton who always gets what she wants.

意味（1）

A pampered or coddled person.

I would have thee gone — / And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, / That lets it hop a little from her hand, / Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, / And with a silken thread plucks it back again[…]

意味（2）

An overly playful person; a trifler.

you but dally, / I pray you passe with your best violence, / I am afeard you make a wanton of me.

意味（3）

A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.

意味（4）

(archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.

...paints with tremendous force the adulteries of the two wantons Aholah and Aholibah, Israel and Judah, and their love of strangers...