wisht

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.”

Derived terms

• wisht as a winnard

Verb

wisht

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of wish

   Synonym: wished

   • 1632, Vicars, transl., Virgil:

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

See also

• whisht

Anagrams

• Whits, swith, whist, whits, withs