different between livestock vs whisht

English

Etymology

From live +? stock

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la?vst?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la?vst?k/

Noun

livestock (uncountable)

1. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

Translations

See also

• breeding
• cattle

English

Alternative forms

• wheesht
• whish
• whist

Interjection

whisht

1. (Irish and British, chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Shush, silence, be quiet!
   • 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter Nine,^[1]

     “You must have loved him very much,” she said.

     “Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […] ”

2. A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Scots

Alternative forms

• wheesht

Interjection

whisht

1. a call for silence, hush!

Verb

whisht (third-person singular present whishts, present participle whishtin, past whishtit, past participle whishtit)

1. to call for silence, to say whisht
2. (transitive) to silence (someone)
3. (intransitive) to be silent

Noun

whisht (plural whishts)

1. (usually negative) a slight sound, a whisper
2. (rare, poetic) silence

Derived terms

• keep one's whisht (“to hold one's tongue”)

Adjective

whisht (not comparable)

1. (archaic) hushed, quiet

References

• “Whisht, interj., v., n., adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC