wisht
adjEtymology Of obscure origin.
1
Cornwall, Devon, West Country Sickly, weak.
- “'Tweer wisht days for me, Mister Jan. I be such a poor lass in brains, an' I could awnly think of trouble 'cause I loved 'e so true. 'Tedn' like the same plaace when you'm away. Then I thot you'd gone right back to Lunnon, an' I judged my heart 'ud break for 'e, I did.”1897, Eden Phillpotts, Lying Prophets:
- Derived terms
- wisht as a winnard