different between whisht vs wisht

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

English

Adjective

wisht (comparative wishter, superlative wishtest)

1. (West Country, Cornwall, Devon) Sickly, weak.
   • 1897, Eden Phillpotts, Lying Prophets:

     “'Tweer wisht days for me, Mister Jan. I be such a poor lass in brains, an' I could awnly think of trouble 'cause I loved 'e so true. 'Tedn' like the same plaace when you'm away. Then I thot you'd gone right back to Lunnon, an' I judged my heart 'ud break for 'e, I did.”

Verb

wisht

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of wish
   • 1632, Vicars (translator), Virgil

     Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.

Synonyms

• wished

Anagrams

• Whits, swith, whist, whits, withs