different between hist vs hits

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Interjection

hist

1. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
2. (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!

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)

1. (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!'

Etymology 2

Noun

hist (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of history.

Etymology 3

Verb

hist (third-person singular simple present hists, present participle histing, simple past and past participle histed)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• HITs, Tish, hits, iths, shit, sith, this, tish

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• heist, hest

Etymology

From Old Norse hestr.

Noun

hist m

1. horse

Declension

Yola

Alternative forms

• fest

Etymology

From Middle English fyst, from Old English f?st, from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.

Noun

hist

1. 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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?ts/

Etymology 1

Determiner

hits

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of its

Etymology 2

Noun

hits

1. plural of hit

Verb

hits

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hit

Anagrams

• Hist, Tish, hist, hist-, hist., iths, shit, sith, this, tish

Catalan

Noun

hits

1. plural of hit

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

hits

1. plural of hit

Spanish

Noun

hits

1. plural of hit