- In
Northern English folklore, the
Barghest or
Barguest is a
mythical monstrous black dog with
large teeth and claws,
though in
other cases the name can...
- seen" - with fire in his eyes and
breath (Hausman 1997:47). The
Wisht or Wish
Hounds (
wisht is a
dialect word for "ghostly" or "haunted") are a
related phenomenon...
-
hundreds of
years old. The name
derives from the
Devonshire dialect word
wisht,
meaning ‘eerie, uncanny’ or, in some readings, ‘pixie-haunted’. The wood...
-
Roydon as 'a
poetical light . . .
which shines not in the
world as it is
wisht, but yet the
worth of its
lustre is known.' In
Thomas Nashe's
Address to...
- An old
rhyme says: 'Penzance boys up in a tree,
Looking as
wisht (i.e. haunted) as
wisht can be;
Newlyn buckas as
strong as oak,
Knocking them down at...
- carb 'to hit
something or someone' yonk 'steal, rob'
thary 'talk, speak'
wisht 'shut up, stop talking' (see also
Scots and
dialectal English whisht) glon...
- for pot
making Wisht – hard-done-by, weak, faint, pale, sad; e.g. "You're
looking wisht today" see
Winnard above for the
saying "as
wisht as a winnard"...
-
sinners or the unbaptized. In
Devon these are
known as Yeth (Heath) or
Wisht Hounds, in
Cornwall Dando and his Dogs or the
Devil and his
Dandy Dogs,...
- through→thru, guard→gard, catalogue→catalog, (in)definite→(in)definit, wished→
wisht.: 13 One
major American newspaper that
began using reformed spellings was...
- when that of the port to
which she is
bound is
still unknown it were to be
wisht that the
princes of the
earth would cause such
observations to be made,...
