hist

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See also: Hist, hist-, and hist.

English

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Etymology 1

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Interjection

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hist

  1. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
  2. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
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Noun

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hist (plural hists)

  1. (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!'
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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hist (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of history.

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Verb

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hist (third-person singular simple present hists, present participle histing, simple past and past participle histed)

  1. (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.

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Etymology

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From Middle English fist, fest, from Old English fȳst, from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti.

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Noun

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hist

  1. fist

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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46