callet

Perhaps from caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or the Gaelic caille, "girl".

callet (plural callets)

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

• 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 4, Scene 2

  He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

callet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

1. (obsolete) To rail or scold.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brathwait to this entry?)

• callet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• allect, lectal

callet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of calleō