Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete form of wit.
- n. An obsolete or dialectal form of wit.
- A dialectal form of wet.
- A dialectal form of wight.
- n. The peetweet, or common sandpiper. See Tringoides.
- To cry as a weet or peetweet.
Wiktionary
- v. archaic To know.
GNU Webster's 1913
- obsolete Wet.
- v. obsolete To know; to wit.
Etymologies
- Representing a Middle English variant of wit (verb). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He had kept up heart so far believing that the boys were "foolin '," but when he felt the awful charcoal line drawn to divide his scalp satisfactorily between these two inhuman, painted monsters, and when with a final "_weet, weet, weet_" of the knife on the stone the implacable Woodpecker approached and grabbed his tow locks in one hand, then he broke down and wept bitterly.”
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
“The keen and suggestive "_weet, weet, weet_" of the knife on the stone smote on Guy's ears and nerves with appalling effect.”
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
“Als ik in de Zeilen haar artikel lees over haar eerste oversteek naar Engeland krijg ik het idee dat ze goed weet waar ze mee bezig is.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“En tja, wie weet komt ze na een paar maanden alweer terug omdat het haar niet is gelukt.”
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13?
“Qua personages ben ik ook heel makkelijk (je weet hoe snel ik ze er doorheen jaag).”
“Ik weet dat er in uden een schoennen winkel zit speciaal voor mensen met een breede kuit.”
“BTW, I think a weekly/bi-weekly fly-tying video of the most popular patterns would be suh-weet!”
“Daarnaast weet niemand mijn wachtwoord en phishing ga ik niet op in.”
“Ik weet niet wat voor laarzen je hebt of wat je aan onderhoud doet, maar mijn leren schoenen krijgen regelmatig een laagje vet.”
“Ik dingen over tempel weet die alleen priesters weet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weet’.
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wit
with wit mess (between less & ness)
wit, wot, wote, wost, wist, weeting, sense, wite, witticism, insulse, wittiness, wittiness witness and 31 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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words i learned from scrabble
vigs, prate, adoze, kain, kane, vealy, yawp, cep, jute, nerolis, voe, jow and 29 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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