different between weest vs beest

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English westen, from Old English w?stan (“to lay waste, ravage”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?stijan (“to waste, devastate”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?st- (“empty, void”). Cognate with Scots wast, weist (“to waste”), German wüsten (“to waste, squander”). More at waste.

Verb

weest (third-person singular simple present weests, present participle weesting, simple past and past participle weested)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England) To waste.

Related terms

• westen
• westy

Etymology 2

From wee +? -est.

Adjective

weest

1. superlative form of wee: most wee

Anagrams

• Sweet, sweet, weets

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?st

Verb

weest

1. (archaic) plural imperative of zijn
2. (with postpositioned u) imperative of zijn

3. second-person (gij) singular past indicative of wijzen

English

Alternative forms

• bist

Etymology

From Old English bist; equivalent to be +? -est. Compare German bist.

Verb

beest

1. (archaic) second-person singular present subjunctive of be
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene ii^[1]:

     Stephano! if thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speake to me: for I am Trinculo; be not afeard, thy good friend Trinculo.

   • a. 1631, John Donne, ‘The Baite’, Poems (1633):

     If thou, to be so seene, beest loath, / By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both […].

See also

Anagrams

• Beets, Beste, beets, beset, tsebe

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch beeste, from beste, from Old French beste, from Latin b?stia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?st/
• Hyphenation: beest
• Rhymes: -e?st

Noun

beest n (plural beesten, diminutive beestje n)

1. An animal, a beast.

   Er zit een beestje in m'n soep.

   There is a bug in my soup.

2. An animal kept as livestock, a head.
3. (figuratively) A cruel, wild, uncivilised, uninhibited or brutal person.

Usage notes

• Beest has a somewhat negative (or at least savage) connotation, whereas dier is neutral.
• In compounds, beest can have the meaning “someone who enjoys an activity”; compare English animal in party animal and also beast.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bees
• ? Papiamentu: bichi

Anagrams

• beste

Middle English

Noun

beest

1. Alternative form of beeste

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?st/

Noun

beest n (plural beesten, diminutive beestje or beestke)

1. Alternative form of bist