weest

English

Etymology

From wee +‎ -est.

Adjective

weest

1. superlative form of wee: most wee
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 187:

     Because I just gived him the weest, toast and cheese or else scrambled egg, I gived him the weest plate and then seeing his face, he used to see what everybody was getting. So if it was my maw's and da's, he could not say nothing because he should get the weest.

   • 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

     It took forever to finagle a set of plumbing pliers around the stubby metal knobs, looking for any angularity that might result in the weest bit of channel-changing torque or vertical and horizontal hold.

Anagrams

• Sweet, Tewes, sweet, weets

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːst

Verb

weest

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

   Weest u niet bang!

   Don’t be afraid!

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

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• waast (Föhr-Amrum)
• wäst (Halligen)
• Weest (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr (“western”), from Proto-Germanic *westrą (“west”), from Proto-Germanic *westraz (“west”), from Proto-Indo-European *wek⁽ʷ⁾speros (“evening”).

Noun

weest

1. (Mooring) west