Examples
“Finally, many (if not most) of the questions are poorly translated into English such that there is one typo ( "wist" instead of "fist"), idiosyncratic word usage, and several unclear meanings.”
“But any two consenting adults who wist to enter into this civil institution should be allowed to, in my opinion.”
“May 10, 2010 at 11:25 pm iz fak toe ree re-furb stil, win xp but lotsa bellz an wist holes”
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“The New York Times described the album as having "a mood of edgy, sophisticated wist - fulness.”
“The wist at the end not in the movie comes when someone tells Gort, the robot that we Earthlings never meant to harm his master.”
“I use the wist method on mine.every week or so I open the battery compartment and turn over the batteries in the holder in my hearing device the batteries do not last long, but with this method I get a week or so more life out of a pair of AAA's maruawe42”
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“George Bush wist zelf waarschijnlijk zelf waarschijnlijk niet dat hij de gegooide schoen als een ernstige belediging moest opvatten.”
“Had we wist of thy coming, thy way had been strewn”
“Had I wist of this, I had been favourable to thy wish, and thou shouldst have had thy will.”
“Then Sayf al-Muluk questioned them of the City of Babel and the Garden of Iram, but none of them returned him a reply, whereupon he was bewildered and wist not what to do; but one of the sea-captains said to him, “O auspicious King, an thou wouldst know of this city and that garden, up and hie thee to the Islands of the Indian realm.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wist’.
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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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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 73 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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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1155 more...
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play words
words for a play
pert, vicissitude, melancholy, vexation, gaud, attestation, renunciation, wax, wrought, sunder, antipodes, reckoning and 206 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, celadon and 148 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 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 245 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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ofravens goes bird-watching
Various names for groups of birds.
dissimulation, bouquet, parliament, chattering, convocation, exaltation, covey, congress, deceit, descent, charm, flush and 74 more...
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monosyllabics
snap, hex, blue, bum, waif, plush, crash, wist, twit, wreck, naff, whim and 17 more...
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Hound
From the poem "The Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson.
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