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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
hist From the web:
- what historical event happened today
- what historical event is depicted in this tapestry
- what historical circumstances led to the enlightenment
- what historical event happened in 1226
- what historical event happened yesterday
- what history month is january
- what historical figure am i
ism
English
Etymology
From the suffix -ism (“belief”), particularly (in the 19th century) in the sense of "social movement". Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??z.?m/
- Rhymes: -?z?m
Noun
ism (plural isms)
- An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
- Synonym: whateverism
- (specifically) A form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
Translations
See also
- ideology
- ist
- philosophy
- wasm
Further reading
- "isms" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 173.
Anagrams
- IMS, IMs, MIS, MIs, MSI, SIM, Sim, mis-, sim
Abinomn
Noun
ism
- root (of a plant)
Cypriot Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (ism), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.
Noun
ism
- name
Uzbek
Etymology
From Persian ???? (esm), from Arabic ?????? (ism).
Noun
ism (plural ismlar)
- name
- (grammar) noun
ism From the web:
- what is my ip
- what is matter
- what is mass
- what is mrna
- what is medicare
- what is melatonin
- what is mental health
- what is mean
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