Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Certain; sure: especially in the phrases to wisse, for certain, certainly; mid wisse, with certainty.
- Certainly; truly; indeed: same as iwis.
- n. An abbreviation of Wisconsin.
- A spurious word, arising from a misunderstanding of the Middle English adverb iwis, often written i-wis, and in Middle English manuscripts i wis, I wis, whence it has been taken as the pronoun I with a verb wis, vaguely regarded as connected with wit (which has a preterit wist). See iwis, and, for the real verb, see wit.
Wiktionary
- adv. Certainly, surely
- adv. Really, truly
- adv. Indeed.
- adj. Certain.
- adj. Sure.
- v. To know.
- v. To think, suppose.
- v. To imagine, ween; to deem.
GNU Webster's 1913
Examples
“Yes | No | Report from stickbow13 wrote 9 weeks 5 days ago awsome buck congrats ..... we know how to grow them in wis,”
Is This Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Buck the New World Record Typical Whitetail?
“Fletch says: holy crap, i almost spit beer through my nose. why are they trying to store potatos (sorry, potatoes) in wis.? don’t they grow them in idaho? maybe they should spend the money on something more worthy – i dono, say like trying to maintain a super bowl contender.”
“Yes | No | Report from stickbow13 wrote 42 weeks 1 day ago we need some rain here in wis, to so we can start planting our crops, yah where wher them deer in november????”
“For some reason, the convential wis-dumb is that the Great Depresssion occurred just before FDR took office and overlooks the 3 years of a continually worsening economy.”
“Remember folks, drretard puts the wis and the dumb in wisdom.”
“Do the justices have to be wise all the time, or can they gear up with +wis items before court starts so they are guaranteed to make theroll?”
“You see roughly any kind of offense we can imagine for spread to we arrangement to wis! hbone to curve to singular wing as great as if Menominee creates it down to Ford Field we get to see a singular wing.”
“I am from Grenada and learning to speak English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “The round trip airfare from madison, wis.””
Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis VII: Daniel C. Roper
“I am from Bangladesh and learning to read in English, give true I wrote the following sentence: “The round trip airfare from madison, wis.””
“In Old English (Saxon) “holding” as a defintion only exists in the suffix – dom and carries more a sense of ‘those things associated with’ thus a kingdom (cyne-dom) is translated as “the things which a king has” and wis-dom as ‘that thing which the wise possess’.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wis’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 94 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 80 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Defective
beware, can, may, methinks, must, ought, shall, quoth, will, wis, wit
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