Meaning & use
Bant
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To diet or restrict one's eating, especially of starches and sugars, in order to lose weight.
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Her grandmother used to talk about 'banting' back in the 1950s, long before modern diet culture.
He decided to bant for a few months after his doctor's warning about his weight.
A note on using this word
The word derives from William Banting, a 19th-century English undertaker whose popular 1863 pamphlet on weight loss made 'to bant' a household verb; it is now dated but still heard in South African English.
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