Meaning Of Word

[pastafreak]

Found in a short story dating back to 1929...relating to a person's mood.
'Fwent'...have googled with no success.
Putting in CB because it will get lost otherwise.

[Tilly2]

Can you type out the sentence please, Pasta?

[rowanwitch]

Only times I see it is in a music title by Pedro Delgado, so it might be a Spanish word

[Lie-in King]

The OED Online doesn't show that word - can you tell us what the context is in the story & maybe the story's title/author?

[THECORBYLOON]

What is the title of the story?

Could "fwent" be a misprint?

[barry1010]

It means flown in Spanish.

No idea of an English word though

[choux]

Nationality of the author/geographical setting of the story?

[pastafreak]

Give me a few minutes and I'll copy out the sentence.

[pastafreak]

Here it is...

" To my unbounded relief, however, Lizbeth lapsed suddenly from the borders of hysteria to her normal fwent calm. "

[pastafreak]

English author.

[Meaghan27]

'her normal 'feint' calm' which means her normal deceptive or deceitful calm?

[Tilly2]

frequent?

[pastafreak]

I've checked out several online dictionaries and a few sites for archaic words...no joy.
It's from an old story, but is in a collection published this year.
Maybe a typo...?
Within the story deceptive or deceitful doesn't seem to fit.
Maybe I'll contact the publisher at some point.

[Lie-in King]

Pasta - does it give the author or is it "Anon"? What's the collection called?

[albaqwerty]

Foul ?

[bhg481]

It's likely that the text was typed up from an audio-tape so there's always a chance that the typist misheard the word or, even, that the author changed his mind which word to use and messed it up. It makes perfect sense if you omit the word.

[pastafreak]

LIK...here's a link to the book...kindle edition

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[pastafreak]

Story is one titled "Deborah"

[pastafreak]

The author was Scottish...I wonder if it is some old usage...even though it's not set in Scotland.

[Meaghan27]

suent meaning smooth or uniformly.

an old 's' was written like an 'f' and it would be easy to mistake a 'w' for a 'u' if it had originally been hand-written.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I wondered about a mis-read that had escaped the proof readers

1930 is well within the time that publishers accepted handwritten copy - people were talking about 30% error rate - but 30% of what?

off the wall comment COMING up!
Those variant readings of the New Testament papyri ( ickle baby Jesus think sunday, that one) - of which 145 are known
NONE are important
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_papyri

( That is: you know when Jesus tied his arriss to a tree and walked into Jerusalem ? Greatest feat of elasticity recorded? - NONE say instead "He said, oh sad it , I sill stop off at Nero's for a macchialato"

I was thinking fervent for fwent