Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Obsolete To frighten; scare.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Middle English form of ghost.
- To terrify; frighten; strike aghast.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To frighten
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See aghast.
Etymologies
- From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from gāst, ghost. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was what they call a gast-rolle night at the Royal Grand”
“It was what they call a gast-rolle night at the Royal Grand Ducal”
“Even with that $30 gast tax relief, that still a lot of coupons to clip.”
Hillary Drops New Indiana Mailer Attacking Obama On Guns, "Bitter" Comments
“These crazy employers no know say people don dey old so, they gast raise our pay, BASTARDS!”
“Bloggers it is a manner of orientation most of our parents are difficult but we still manage them therefore if one individual decides to play hardball with a group of people for four years then dem gast take am be that.”
“At this point, the reader's gast is so flabbered that she can only gape in amazement when the novelist finally remembers...the plot!”
“Mountjoy here today doing the old 2+2=5 shuffle on jobs, benefits and gast arbeiters unintentionally says it all in a comment at LDV - it would be political opportunism of the worst kind:”
“To quote Lord Frankie of Howerd, "my gast has never been so flabbered.”
“They dine at gast haüse, and sleep in the independence of a separate lodging.”
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gast’.
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Not Yet Colde in it's Grave
Some semblances strange & others nearer, dearer, yet more familiar... . .
ac, amber, ambyre, ancor-rap, and, anda, atol, bana, band, beadu, beadu-weorc, bealu and 446 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
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