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hisn
English
Alternative forms
- his'n
Etymology
From Middle English hisen, ultimately corresponding to an alteration of his after mine, thine.
Pronoun
hisn
- (now regional, Britain and US, especially Appalachia) His. [from 15th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 32:
- I will not show him this letter of yours, though you seem to desire it, lest it should provoke him to be too severe a schoolmaster, when you are his'n.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
- An' every feller felt ez though all Mexico wuz hisn.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 32:
Anagrams
- Nish, Shin, hins, nish, shin, sinh
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hist
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
Interjection
hist
- (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
- (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
- 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XI,
- "My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87,
- Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 99,
- There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it!
- 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XI,
Synonyms
- (utterance used to attract someone's attention): psst, hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey
- (injunction to be quiet): hush, shh, shush, whist
- (injunction to pay attention): hark
Translations
Noun
hist (plural hists)
- (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
- 1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla, unnumbered page,
- 'A tinker!' repeated Sir Hugh, quite loud, in defiance of the signs and hists! hists! of Camilla, 'good lack! that's a person I should never have thought of!'
- 1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla, unnumbered page,
Etymology 2
Noun
hist (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of history.
Etymology 3
Verb
hist (third-person singular simple present hists, present participle histing, simple past and past participle histed)
- (US) Pronunciation spelling of hoist.
- 1952, R. A. Atkinson, Uncle Aaron Peddles a Possum, 2010 [1976], J. Mason Brewer (editor), Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos (Combined edition), page 30,
- When he spy de train a-comin' 'roun' de curve, he hists de hankershuf way up ovuh his haid for hit to stop, an' when de engineer rech de spot whar Unkuh Aaron stannin', he jumps down outen his seat to de groun' an asts Unkuh Aaron de why he stop de train.
- 1952, R. A. Atkinson, Uncle Aaron Peddles a Possum, 2010 [1976], J. Mason Brewer (editor), Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos (Combined edition), page 30,
Anagrams
- HITs, Tish, hits, iths, shit, sith, this, tish
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- heist, hest
Etymology
From Old Norse hestr.
Noun
hist m
- horse
Declension
Yola
Alternative forms
- fest
Etymology
From Middle English fyst, from Old English f?st, from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.
Noun
hist
- a fist
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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