bist
bist verb: used to form the second person singular of be.
Verb
bist
- Used to form the second person singular of be.
- Thee bist rayther too much a feelosofer, I be afeard, for me.1875, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch
- Lookee, thee bist purty, my love; lookee, thee bist purty: thee hast dove's eyes betwix thy locks; thy locks be like a flock o' ship fur thickedness.1904, Henry Branch, Cotswold and vale
Synonyms of bist
Origin of bist
From Middle English bist, beest, best, from Old English bist ("(thou) art"; second person singular of bēon (“to be”)), from Proto-Germanic *biusi (“(thou) art”), equivalent to be + -est. Cognate with West Frisian bist (“(thou) art”), Low German büst (“(thou) art”), German bist (“(thou) art”).
Phrases with bist
Words that rhyme with bist
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- frist
- insist
- Liszt
- piste
- tryst
- agist
- consist
- dismissed
- encyst
- hist
- pissed
- sist
- tier list
- trist
- whist
- wrist
- absist
- atwist
- cist
- coexist
- contrist
- cyst
- delist
- demist
- desist
- dissed
- dream list
- exist
- fair list
- get one's knickers in a twist
- glissed
- hissed
- is't
- ist
- kissed
- missed
- rankist
- schist
- triste
- unlist
- ventriloquist
- wist
- xyst
Questions about bist
- What does bist mean?
- Bist means used to form the second person singular of be.
- What part of speech is bist?
- Bist is a verb.
Words near bist in the dictionary
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