hist

English Online Dictionary. What means hist‎? What does hist mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

Interjection

hist

1. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
2. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87,

     Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,

Synonyms

• (utterance used to attract someone's attention): psst, hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey
• (injunction to be quiet): hush, shh, shush, whist
• (injunction to pay attention): hark

Translations

Noun

hist (plural hists)

1. (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

hist (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of history.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

hist (third-person singular simple present hists, present participle histing, simple past and past participle histed)

1. (US) Pronunciation spelling of hoist.
   • 1952, R. A. Atkinson, Uncle Aaron Peddles a Possum, 2010 [1976], J. Mason Brewer (editor), Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos (Combined edition), page 30,

     When he spy de train a-comin' 'roun' de curve, he hists de hankershuf way up ovuh his haid for hit to stop, an' when de engineer rech de spot whar Unkuh Aaron stannin', he jumps down outen his seat to de groun' an asts Unkuh Aaron de why he stop de train.

Anagrams

• HITs, This, Tish, hits, iths, shit, sith, this, tish

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Alternative forms

• fest

Etymology

From Middle English fist, fest, from Old English fȳst, from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪst/, /fɛst/

Noun

hist

1. fist

Derived terms

• histfullès

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46