Wanton vs. Wonton

(archaic) Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.

(obsolete) Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.

Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.

Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.

(archaic) Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.

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.

(intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.

(transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).

Example: ‘The young man wantoned away his inheritance.’;

(intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.

Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

Example: ‘A wanton and a merry [friar].’; ‘[She] her unadorned golden tresses woreDisheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved.’; ‘How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!’;

Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.

Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.

Example: ‘Not with wanton looking of folly.’; ‘[Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace,Lascivious, wanton.’;

Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.

A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; - used rarely as a term of endearment.

Example: ‘I am afeard you make a wanton of me.’; ‘Peace, my wantons; he will doMore than you can aim unto.’;

One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.

Example: ‘Anything, sir,That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton.’;

A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.

Example: ‘Nature here wantoned as in her prime.’; ‘How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams!’;

To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.

To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

lewd or lascivious woman

waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life

spend wastefully;

Example: ‘wanton one's money away’;

become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

engage in amorous play

behave extremely cruelly and brutally

occurring without motivation or provocation;

Example: ‘motiveless malignity’; ‘unprovoked and dastardly attack’;

casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior;

Example: ‘her easy virtue’; ‘he was told to avoid loose (or light) women’; ‘wanton behavior’;

(slang) Ovary.

a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup

a soup with won ton dumplings

A wonton (simplified Chinese: 云吞; traditional Chinese: 雲吞), also spelled wantan, or wuntun in transliteration from Cantonese; wenden/ɦwəɲd̼əɲ/ in Shanghainese; Mandarin: húntun (馄饨/餛飩) is a type of Chinese dumpling commonly found across regional styles of Chinese cuisine.