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hundreds of
years old. The name
derives from the
Devonshire dialect word
wisht,
meaning ‘eerie, uncanny’ or, in some readings, ‘pixie-haunted’. The wood...
- 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...
-
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...
- through→thru, guard→gard, catalogue→catalog, (in)definite→(in)definit, wished→
wisht.: 13 One
major American newspaper that
began using reformed spellings was...
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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,...
- 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"...
- "possessed" and "wished",
becoming "addresst", "carest", "mist", "possest" and "
wisht", respectively).
Other changes included removal of
silent letters ("catalogue"...
